Leisure time activities as mediating variables in functional disability progression: An application of parallel latent growth curve modeling.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aims of this study were to investigate (1) whether and (2) the extent to which Taiwanese older adults' leisure time activity (LTA) trajectories mediated the potential association between their sociodemographic factors and their functional disability trajectories.

Methods

Longitudinal data from four waves of the Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Aging (TLSA), collected between 1996 and 2007, were used for analysis (N = 3,429). Parallel-process latent growth curve modeling was adopted to evaluate the process by which LTA mediated between sociodemographic factors (age, gender, education, self-rated health, comorbidities, and depression) and the outcome process of functional disabilities.

Results

When mediated by baseline level of LTA, five sociodemographic fact

SUBMITTER: Chen YM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6169861 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature