Gender and the natural history of self-rated health: a 59-year longitudinal study.

@article{McCullough2004GenderAT,
  title={Gender and the natural history of self-rated health: a 59-year longitudinal study.},
  author={Michael E. McCullough and Jean-Philippe Laurenceau},
  journal={Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association},
  year={2004},
  volume={23 6},
  pages={
          651-5
        }
}
  • M. McCullough, J. Laurenceau
  • Published 1 November 2004
  • Psychology
  • Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association
Self-ratings of health are uniquely predictive of morbidity and mortality, and they encompass people's evaluations of many medical, psychological, and social conditions in their lives. However, the longitudinal trajectory of self-rated health has not been evaluated to date. In the present study, 59-year longitudinal multilevel analyses (1940-1999) of data from 1,411 men and women revealed that self-rated health was relatively stable until age 50 and then began to decrease in an accelerating… 
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