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Relationship of Activity and Social Support to the Functional Health of Older Adults
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: According to J. W. Rowe and R. L. Kahn (1997), successful aging is the combination of low probability of disease, high functioning, and active engagement with life. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between active engagement with life and functioning in a convenience sample of community-dwelling adults aged 65 and older. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 244 members of an organization for older adults were mailed a survey containing the Activity Checklist and the Social Support Inventory as measures of engagement with life and the SF-12 Health Survey as a measure of functioning. RESULTS: Hierarchical linear regression showed that maintenance of instrumental, social, and high-demand leisure activities was associated with higher physical health scores and maintenance of low-demand leisure activities was associated with lower physical health scores. Maintenance of low-demand leisure activities was associated with higher mental health scores. DISCUSSION: If changes in potentially modifiable risk factors such as activity are associated with the beginning of functional decline, early intervention may be possible before disability ensues, thus reducing the risk of disability and ultimately health care costs.
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In a cross-sectional survey of 244 community-dwelling older adults, maintenance of instrumental, social, and high-demand leisure activities was associated with better physical health, while low-demand leisure activities were associated with worse physical health but better mental health. Social support was not independently associated with functioning when activity variables were included.
Key findings
- The physical health model accounted for 30.2% of variance (*p* = .0001); activity and social support added 25.5% beyond controls. Male gender (β = .16, *p* = .013), instrumental activities (β = .19, *p* = .006), social activities (β = .30, *p* = .0001), and high-demand leisure activities (β = .30, *p* = .0001) were positively associated with physical health; low-demand leisure activities were negatively associated (β = −.19, *p* = .015).
- The mental health model accounted for 18.1% of variance (*p* = .0001); activity and social support added 14.7% beyond controls. Only maintenance of low-demand leisure activities was independently associated with higher mental health (β = .31, *p* = .0001).
- Social support was not associated with functioning in this study.
- Participants were primarily White (97.5%) and female (75%), with mean age 73 (*SD* = 5.3, range 65–89); 56.6% were married, 45% were college graduates, and 10.2% had incomes below $15,000.
Methods
- Cross-sectional mailed survey of 244 members of OASIS, an organization for older adults. Of 1,007 questionnaires mailed, 23 were undeliverable, leaving 984 as the denominator; 697 were returned (71% response rate). A social support measure was added midway through data collection, and analyses used the 244 participants who completed it and other measures.
- Measures included a 55-item Activity Checklist with instrumental, social, high-demand leisure, and low-demand leisure subscales; a 17-item Social Support Inventory assessing directive/nondirective and emotional/instrumental support; and the SF-12 Health Survey for physical and mental health functioning.
- Two hierarchical linear regression models used SF-12 physical and mental health subscales as dependent variables. Age, gender, income, and marital status were entered first as controls; activity and social support variables were entered second.
Limitations
- Stated: the sample was a random selection of members of an older adult organization but not representative of community-dwelling older adults; it was primarily White, well-educated, in good health, and high income, with few lower-income participants. Age was not associated with functioning, possibly due to the restricted, healthy sample.
- Stated: cross-sectional data confine the study to describing associations; the authors cannot determine whether activity engagement leads to better functioning or whether functioning influences activity levels.
- Evident: functioning was measured by mailed self-report SF-12 rather than a performance measure, and the social support measure was added midway through data collection, reducing the analytic sample to 244.
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“Maintenance of instrumental (  ϭ .19,p ϭ .006),social (  ϭ .30,p ϭ .0001),and high-demand leisure (  ϭ .30,p ϭ .0001)activities was positively associated with physical health.”
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“Being male was associated with higher physical health scores (  ϭ .16,p ϭ .013).”
§ Relationship of Activity and Social Support to the Functional Health of Older Adults > Participant Characteristics
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“Maintenance of instrumental (  ϭ .19,p ϭ .006),social (  ϭ .30,p ϭ .0001),and high-demand leisure (  ϭ .30,p ϭ .0001)activities was positively associated with physical health.”
§ Relationship of Activity and Social Support to the Functional Health of Older Adults > Participant Characteristics
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“In the regression model with mental health as the dependent variable, 18.1% of the variance was accounted for by the independent variables ( p ϭ .0001).”
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“In the model with physical health as the dependent variable, 30.2% of the variance in physical health was accounted for by the independent variables ( p ϭ .0001).”
§ Relationship of Activity and Social Support to the Functional Health of Older Adults > Participant Characteristics
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“Social support was not associated with functioning in this study.”
§ Relationship of Activity and Social Support to the Functional Health of Older Adults > D ISCUSSION
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“Maintenance of instrumental (  ϭ .19,p ϭ .006),social (  ϭ .30,p ϭ .0001),and high-demand leisure (  ϭ .30,p ϭ .0001)activities was positively associated with physical health.”
§ Relationship of Activity and Social Support to the Functional Health of Older Adults > Participant Characteristics
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“Maintenance of low-demand leisure activities was negatively associated with physical health (  ϭ Ϫ .19,p ϭ .015).”
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“Age was not associated with functioning”
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“Only maintenance of low-demand leisure activities (  ϭ .31,p ϭ .0001),however, was independently associated with increased mental health.”
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“Participants were primarily White (97.5%) and female (75%).”
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“Both regression models testing the relationship of activity and social support to physical and mental health were significant.”
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“Participants were primarily White (97.5%) and female (75%).”
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“Participants were well educated, with 45% being college graduates.”
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“Mean age was 73 ( SD ϭ 5.3, range ϭ 65-89)”
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“Participants also reported high income”
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“Ours was primarily a White, well-educated sample in good health.”
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“Relative validity coefficients, measured with a known groups procedure, for the physical subscale ranged from .43 to .78 and for the mental subscale ranged from .93 to .98 in previous tests (Ware, Kosinski, & Keller, 1996).”
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“participants were randomly selected to include older adults in health promotion courses, in non-health-related courses, and in no courses.”
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“697 were returned for a response rate of 71%.”
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“Test-retest reliability with a 2-week time interval was .89for the physical subscale and .76 for the mental subscale (McHorney, Kosinski, & Ware, 1994).”
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- Not checked yetcites McHorney, Kosinski, & Ware, 1994
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“Cronbach's alphas were .83,.69,.88,and .93 for directive instrumental, nondirective instrumental, directive emotional, and nondirective emotional support, respectively.”
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“Neither the bivariate correlation between the dependent variables ( Ϫ .025)nor the path between the dependent variables from the simultaneous model ( Ϫ .10)was significant.Thus, we chose to use two regression models.”
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“Our sample may have greater access to programs that offer the opportunity to engage in activities that could affect health.”
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“age, gender, income, and marital status were included in the models as controls”
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“Maintenance of social, leisure, and instrumental activities was associated with better functioning in terms of both physical and mental health, although low-demand leisure activities may differentially affect health.”
§ Relationship of Activity and Social Support to the Functional Health of Older Adults > D ISCUSSION
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“Rowe and Kahn (1997) proposed a model of successful aging comprising three components: avoidance of disability, maintenance of physical functioning, and active engagement with life.”
§ Relationship of Activity and Social Support to the Functional Health of Older Adults > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites Rowe and Kahn (1997)
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“In their review of 81 studies, Uchino, Cacioppo and Kiecolt-Glaser (1996) found that social support was related to positive effects on the cardiovascular, endocrine, and immune systems.”
§ Relationship of Activity and Social Support to the Functional Health of Older Adults > Abstract
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“which has been associated with better health (Guralnik & Simonsick, 1993).”
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“However, less strenuous leisure activities, such as attending classes or volunteering, also have been associated with better functioning (Berkman et al., 1995;Herzog, Franks, Markus, & Holmberg, 1998) and survival (Glass, Mendes de Leon, Marottoli, & Berkman, 1999) among older adults.”
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“Successful aging occurs at their intersection and is more than the absence of disease and maintenance of high functioning.”
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- Not checked yetcites Rowe and Kahn (1997)
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“Among older adults, emotional support has been associated with better physical functioning (Seeman et al., 1995) and reduced mortality risks (Penninx et al., 1997)”
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“Unger, Johnson, and Marks (1997) found that engagement in social activities was associated with increased physical function and predicted a slower decline in functional status over a 6-year period.”
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- Not checked yetcites Unger, Johnson, and Marks (1997)
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“Even with the shortcomings of this study, if activity engagement is related to functioning in this group, we believe they would be related in the population.”
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“According to Rowe and Kahn (1997), engagement with life includes activity and social support.”
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- Not checked yetcites Rowe and Kahn (1997)
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The authors state this as an assumption.
Activity is a potentially modifiable factor that can be changed by intervention.
“What we have found in this study are potentially modifiable factors associated with functioning that could enhance successful aging.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The 244 participants who completed the social support measure are representative of the larger sample of respondents.
“A measure of perceived social support was added to the survey midway through data collection.Our analyses were conducted with the 244 participants who completed this and other measures.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Few studies have included both activity and social support, and none have included social, instrumental, and leisure activities together.
“Few researchers have included both activity and social support when examining the relationship between engagement with life and functioning in older adults, and to our knowledge no studies have included social, instrumental, and leisure activities together.”
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“This relationship has been observed in previous studies and across different age groups (Everard et al., 2000; Bovier et al., 2004; Hawton et al., 2011).”
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Conclusion overstates which activities were associated with mental health
MajorThe conclusion says social, leisure, and instrumental activities were associated with better physical and mental health. The results say that only low-demand leisure activity was independently associated with increased mental health.
“Maintenance of social, leisure, and instrumental activities was associated with better functioning in terms of both physical and mental health, although low-demand leisure activities may differentially affect health.”
“Only maintenance of low-demand leisure activities (  ϭ .31,p ϭ .0001),however, was independently associated with increased mental health.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Everard, K. M., Lach, H. W., Fisher, E. B., & Baum, M. C.
- Affiliations
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Corresponding author
- Everard, K. M.
- Venue
- The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2000-07-01
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- S208-S212
- ISSN
- 1079-5014 (ISSN-L)
- 1758-5368
- OpenAlex
- W2149121845
- Semantic Scholar
- 9400b138016de31b8b13c65bed3b08cf3de63854
- Cited by
- 437
- References
- 35
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 28 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 33 · 2015: 24 · 2014: 28 · 2013: 18 · 2012: 36
- FWCI
- 5.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journals of Gerontology Series B (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (2T32HL07456, T32HL007456)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Aging, Health, and Disability
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Keywords
- successful aging, older adults, leisure, social support, functional health, physical health, mental health, instrumental activities, community-dwelling older adults, disability risk, health care costs
- MeSH terms
- Activities of Daily Living, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Aging, Female, Humans, Leisure Activities, Life Style, Male, Mental Health, Social Support, Health Behavior
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