Ethnic identification, discrimination, and mental and physical health among Syrian refugees: The moderating role of identity needs

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (7) ◽  
pp. 832-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elif Çelebi ◽  
Maykel Verkuyten ◽  
Sabahat Cigdem Bagci
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Ethnic Identification ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Mental And Physical Health ◽  
Moderating Role

scholarly journals Sleep and inflammation in resilient aging

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 20140009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Irwin
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Biological Pathway ◽  
Chronic Disease Risk ◽  
Physical Health Outcomes ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

Sleep quality is important to health, and increasingly viewed as critical in promoting successful, resilient aging. In this review, the interplay between sleep and mental and physical health is considered with a focus on the role of inflammation as a biological pathway that translates the effects of sleep on risk of depression, pain and chronic disease risk in aging. Given that sleep regulates inflammatory biologic mechanisms with effects on mental and physical health outcomes, the potential of interventions that target sleep to reduce inflammation and promote health in aging is also discussed.

scholarly journals Healthy retirement begins at school: educational differences in the health outcomes of early transitions into retirement

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kasim Allel ◽  
Ana Sofía León ◽  
Ursula M. Staudinger ◽  
Esteban Calvo
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Retirement Timing ◽  
Moderating Role

AbstractThe literature on socio-economic variations in the association between retirement timing and health is inconclusive and largely limited to the moderating role of occupation. By selecting the sample case of Mexico where a sizeable number of older adults have no or very little formal education, this study allows the moderating role of education to be tested properly. Drawing on panel data for 2,430 individuals age 50 and over from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) and combining propensity score matching models with fixed-effects regressions, this article investigates differences in the health effects of retirement timing between older adults with varying years of education. Subjective health is measured using a self-reported assessment of respondents’ overall health and physical health as a reverse count of doctor-diagnosed chronic diseases. The results indicate that early transitions into retirement are associated with worse health outcomes, but education fully compensates for the detrimental association with subjective and physical health, while adjusting for baseline health, demographics and socio-economic characteristics. In conclusion, formal education during childhood and adolescence is associated with a long-term protective effect on health. It attenuates negative health consequences of early retirement transitions. Policies and programmes promoting healthy and active ageing would benefit from considering the influence of formal education in shaping older adults’ health after the transition into retirement.

Exploring the Role of Expectancies in the Mental and Physical Health Outcomes of Written Self-Disclosure

2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candace L. Patterson ◽  
Jefferson A. Singer
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Physical Health Outcomes ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

Emotional self-disclosure yields mental and physical health benefits. Methods for enhancing this intervention have largely been ignored in the literature. Building from research that indicates that expectations play a role in self-disclosure's outcomes, the current research examined expectations and self-disclosure. Health outcomes were assessed in 40 female college students who participated in a written self-disclosure exercise for 15 minutes for 3 consecutive days. In order to determine the interactive influence of self-disclosure and expectancy on mental and physical health outcomes, participants self-disclosed a traumatic or trivial topic and the researchers attempted to manipulate participants' expectancies concerning the benefits produced by self-disclosure. Women who disclosed traumas and were given the expectancy that disclosure would yield benefits had decreased interpersonal sensitivity and interpersonal alienation 1 month after disclosure. Limitations and recommendations are discussed. Creating positive expectations may represent a method for enhancing the positive effects of emotional expression.

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