War-Related Life Course Stress and Late-Life Subjective Age in Northern Vietnam.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

The role of early life stressors in subjective aging is weakly understood, especially in low- to middle-income countries. This paper investigated how early life stressors encountered in armed conflict influence subjective age among Vietnamese older adults who experienced war over decades of their early life.

Research design and methods

We analyzed survey data from the 2018 Vietnam Health and Aging Study involving 2,447 Vietnamese older adults who encountered diverse war-related stressors in early adulthood. The analytical sample (N = 2,341) included 50.9% women and 49.1% men, with an average age of 69.8. 41.1% are military veterans. We conducted survey-adjusted multinomial logistic regression analyses with mediation to predict the probability

SUBMITTER: Korinek K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11192863 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature