@article{ref1,
title="Profiles of physical, emotional and psychosocial wellbeing in the Lothian birth cohort 1936",
journal="BMC geriatrics",
year="2012",
author="Zammit, Andrea R. and Starr, John M. and Johnson, Wendy and Deary, Ian J.",
volume="12",
number="1",
pages="64-64",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Physical, emotional, and psychosocial wellbeing are important domains of function. The aims of this study were to explore the existence of separable groups among 70-year olds with scores representing physical function, perceived quality of life, and emotional wellbeing, and to characterise any resulting groups using demographic, personality, cognition, health and lifestyle variables. METHODS: We used latent class analysis (LCA) to identify possible groups. RESULTS: Results suggested there were 5 groups. These included High (n = 515, 47.2% of the sample), Average (n = 417, 38.3%), and Poor Wellbeing (n = 37, 3.4%) groups. The two other groups had contrasting patterns of wellbeing: one group scored relatively well on physical function, but low on emotional wellbeing (Good Fitness/ Low Spirits, n = 60, 5.5%), whereas the other group showed low physical function but relatively well emotional wellbeing (Low Fitness/Good Spirits, n = 62, 5.7%). Salient characteristics that distinguished all the groups included smoking and drinking behaviours, personality, and illness. CONCLUSIONS: Despite there being some evidence of these groups, the results also support a largely one-dimensional construct of wellbeing in old age---for the domains assessed here---though with some evidence that some individuals have uneven profiles.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1471-2318",
doi="10.1186/1471-2318-12-64",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-12-64"
}