TY - JOUR
T1 - Loneliness is Associated With Lower Coping Self-Efficacy Among Older Adults
AU - Lee, Ji W.
AU - Nersesian, Paula
AU - Suen, Jonathan J.
AU - Mensah Cudjoe, Thomas K.
AU - Gill, Jessica
AU - Szanton, Sarah L.
AU - Hladek, Melissa D.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: MDH is supported by the NINR/NIH (3P30NR018093). JJS is supported in-part by the NIA/NIH (F31AG071353) and the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: MDH is supported by the NINR/NIH (3P30NR018093). JJS is supported in-part by the NIA/NIH (F31AG071353) and the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2023/2
Y1 - 2023/2
N2 - To address the gap of lacking research on the association between coping self-efficacy and loneliness, this study examined this relationship to inform future research and intervention on loneliness. Using data from 151 community-dwelling older adults ages 65 and older, we estimated multivariate logistic regression models with age, race/ethnicity, sex, body mass index, chronic disease composite score, social support, coping self-efficacy, and depression symptoms. Loneliness was reported in 32.1% of participants and negatively associated with coping self-efficacy (OR = 0.68, 95% CI: 0.50–0.93) while controlling for age, race, sex, chronic disease composite score, and body mass index. Our findings suggest that coping self-efficacy may be a target for intervention involving loneliness in future research; however, the causal relationship between coping self-efficacy and loneliness should be explored further.
AB - To address the gap of lacking research on the association between coping self-efficacy and loneliness, this study examined this relationship to inform future research and intervention on loneliness. Using data from 151 community-dwelling older adults ages 65 and older, we estimated multivariate logistic regression models with age, race/ethnicity, sex, body mass index, chronic disease composite score, social support, coping self-efficacy, and depression symptoms. Loneliness was reported in 32.1% of participants and negatively associated with coping self-efficacy (OR = 0.68, 95% CI: 0.50–0.93) while controlling for age, race, sex, chronic disease composite score, and body mass index. Our findings suggest that coping self-efficacy may be a target for intervention involving loneliness in future research; however, the causal relationship between coping self-efficacy and loneliness should be explored further.
KW - coping self-efficacy
KW - loneliness
KW - older adults
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U2 - 10.1177/07334648221129858
DO - 10.1177/07334648221129858
M3 - Article
C2 - 36178675
AN - SCOPUS:85139175165
SN - 0733-4648
VL - 42
SP - 270
EP - 279
JO - Journal of Applied Gerontology
JF - Journal of Applied Gerontology
IS - 2
ER -