Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality After Age 67: The Contribution of Psychological Factors.

ABSTRACT: Diverging trends of longer lives and increased inequalities in age-at-death invite to updated research on late-life mortality. Earlier studies have identified health behavior, childhood, psychosocial, and material conditions as key determinants of life expectancy, but the role of psychological factors remains a topic of debate. The current study is framed in a life course developmental perspective and assesses the mediating role of secondary control strategies (subjective age) and primary control capacity (perceived control) to socioeconomic (wealth and education) inequality in mortality after age 67. Data are derived from the second wave of the Norwegian Life Course, Ageing and Generation study (N=1,432 and age 67-85). All in all, 366 deaths were observed over a mean follow-up of 9

SUBMITTER: Veenstra M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8526927 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature