Open AccessPersonality and health as predictors of income decrease in old age: Findings from the longitudinal SMILE study
Author(s) -
D. A. I. Groffen,
Hans Bosma,
Marjan van den Akker,
Gertrudis I. J. M. Kempen,
J. Th. M. van Eijk
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
european journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1464-360X
pISSN - 1101-1262
DOI - 10.1093/eurpub/ckp050
Subject(s) - longitudinal study , personality , psychology , clinical psychology , demography , developmental psychology , medicine , social psychology , sociology , pathology
There is much evidence for the influence of low socio-economic status on poor health. It is, however, also important to study the ways in which people attain and retain their socio-economic status and the factors that predict changes in socio-economic status, such as a decrease in income. Such mobility also occurs in older populations, in which financial and health-related changes are very common, especially after retirement.
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