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.
journal_name
BMC Geriatrjournal_title
BMC geriatricsauthors
Zammit AR,Starr JM,Johnson W,Deary IJdoi
10.1186/1471-2318-12-64subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-10-22 00:00:00pages
64issn
1471-2318pii
1471-2318-12-64journal_volume
12pub_type
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