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14570530

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-10-22
pubmed:abstractText
After administering interviews covering health conditions, physical limitations, optimism, and affect to 851 older adults, interviewers rated the health and sickness of the interviewees. Observers' ratings of health and sickness were more highly correlated with the severity of participants' self-reported health conditions than were participants' self-ratings of health. This finding is likely attributable to participants' self-ratings of health being more highly correlated with their optimism and positive affect than the observers' ratings. Participants rated as sicker and less healthy at baseline were at a 3 times greater risk for mortality over 114 months. This association was independent of participants' self-rated health as well as demographics, self-reported health conditions, years of smoking, physical limitations, body mass index, optimism, and affect.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0278-6133
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
2003 APA, all rights reserved
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
471-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Observer ratings of health and sickness: can other people tell us anything about our health that we don't already know?
pubmed:affiliation
Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, Dept of Psychology, Inst for Health, Health Care Policy & Aging, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA. ianb@rci.rutgers.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't