TY - JOUR
T1 - Dynamic factor analysis of worldviews/religious beliefs and well-being among older adults
AU - Kim, Jungmeen
AU - Nesselroade, John R.
AU - McCullough, Michael E.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This research was supported by grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (K01-MH068491) to Jungmeen Kim and support from the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University to Michael McCullough.
PY - 2009/6
Y1 - 2009/6
N2 - Intraindividual patterns of time-lagged relationships among self-reports of worldviews/religious beliefs, self-concept, and physical and psychological well-being were investigated. Participants were older adults (mean age = 77 years) who were measured weekly covering a total of 25 weeks. Dynamic Factor Models were fitted to multivariate repeated measures data pooled over subsets of participants. The results showed significant time-lagged cross-factor relationships suggesting that worldviews/religious beliefs had a significant direct effect on self-concept and physical health over 2 weeks. For each factor series, there were substantial autoregressive effects indicating persisting effects of factors on themselves over 1 or 2 weeks. A link between worldviews/religious beliefs and physical health was found in the time-lagged structure of within-person variability. The findings underscore the need to study both intraindividual change and interindividual differences in intraindividual variability to obtain a better understanding of behavior and behavioral development.
AB - Intraindividual patterns of time-lagged relationships among self-reports of worldviews/religious beliefs, self-concept, and physical and psychological well-being were investigated. Participants were older adults (mean age = 77 years) who were measured weekly covering a total of 25 weeks. Dynamic Factor Models were fitted to multivariate repeated measures data pooled over subsets of participants. The results showed significant time-lagged cross-factor relationships suggesting that worldviews/religious beliefs had a significant direct effect on self-concept and physical health over 2 weeks. For each factor series, there were substantial autoregressive effects indicating persisting effects of factors on themselves over 1 or 2 weeks. A link between worldviews/religious beliefs and physical health was found in the time-lagged structure of within-person variability. The findings underscore the need to study both intraindividual change and interindividual differences in intraindividual variability to obtain a better understanding of behavior and behavioral development.
KW - Dynamic factor analysis
KW - Intraindividual variability
KW - Well-being
KW - Worldviews/religious beliefs
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U2 - 10.1007/s10804-009-9062-2
DO - 10.1007/s10804-009-9062-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:67349103369
VL - 16
SP - 87
EP - 100
JO - Journal of Adult Development
JF - Journal of Adult Development
SN - 1068-0667
IS - 2
ER -
