IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/geronb/v78y2023i5p866-879..html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Everyday Discrimination, Neighborhood Perceptions, and Incidence of Activity Limitations Among Middle-Aged and Older African Americans

Author

Listed:
  • Weidi Qin
  • Ann W Nguyen
  • Yi Wang
  • Tyrone C Hamler
  • Fei Wang

Abstract

ObjectivesThis study aims to examine the relationship between everyday discrimination, neighborhood perceptions, and the incidence of daily activity limitations (i.e., activities of daily living [ADL] and instrumental activities of daily living [IADL]) among middle-aged and older African Americans. This study also examines whether neighborhood perceptions moderate the association between discrimination and the incidence of daily activity limitations.MethodsData were from the 2006 to 2016 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. African Americans aged 50 or older free of ADL limitations (N = 1,934) and IADL limitations (N = 2,007) at baseline were selected. Cox proportional hazards regression models were performed to test the study aims. Multiple imputations were applied to handle missing data.ResultsOne-unit increase in everyday discrimination was associated with a 25% (p

Suggested Citation

  • Weidi Qin & Ann W Nguyen & Yi Wang & Tyrone C Hamler & Fei Wang, 2023. "Everyday Discrimination, Neighborhood Perceptions, and Incidence of Activity Limitations Among Middle-Aged and Older African Americans," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 78(5), pages 866-879.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:geronb:v:78:y:2023:i:5:p:866-879.
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/geronb/gbad001
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:geronb:v:78:y:2023:i:5:p:866-879.. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.