Fuller S S, Larson S B
Res Nurs Health. 1980 Jun;3(2):81-9. doi: 10.1002/nur.4770030206.
The effects of life events, emotional support, interaction of life events and emotional support, and age on indices of physical and psychological health were examined within a hierarchical multiple-regression design. Fifty older people who were randomly selected from among the residents of a high-rise apartment building provided retrospective data on their life events and emotional support. These same subjects provided more recent data on their functional health, distress arising from chronic health problems, and four indices of morale (agitation, attitude toward own aging, lonely dissatisfaction, and a combined index of the morale dimensions). As expected, significant multivariate effects were demonstrated on all but two measures: distress arising from chronic health problems and attitude toward aging. Examination of the independent contributions to these effects showed variations depending on the health index of focus. Expected moderations of the effects of life events by emotional support effects were not demonstrated. Results are discussed in relationship to previous research and the theoretical expectation that emotional support would moderate the effects of life events on health.
在分层多元回归设计中，研究了生活事件、情感支持、生活事件与情感支持的相互作用以及年龄对身心健康指标的影响。从一座高层公寓楼的居民中随机选取了50名老年人，他们提供了关于自己生活事件和情感支持的回顾性数据。这些受试者还提供了关于其功能健康、慢性健康问题引起的困扰以及四个士气指标（激动、对自身衰老的态度、孤独不满以及士气维度的综合指标）的更新数据。正如预期的那样，除了两项指标（慢性健康问题引起的困扰和对衰老的态度）外，所有其他指标都显示出显著的多变量效应。对这些效应的独立贡献进行检查发现，这取决于所关注的健康指标。情感支持效应并未如预期那样对生活事件的效应起到调节作用。结合先前的研究以及情感支持会调节生活事件对健康影响的理论预期，对研究结果进行了讨论。
