Social Support, Health-Promotive Beliefs, and Preventive Health Behaviors Among the Elderly

Maayn K. Potts; Margo-Lea Hurwicz; Michael S. Goldstein

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Social Support, Health-Promotive Beliefs, and Preventive Health Behaviors Among the Elderly

Maayn K. Potts, Margo-Lea Hurwicz, Michael S. Goldstein

University of Missouri-St. Louis

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A high level of social support was a consistent predictor of preventive health behaviors among 936 elderly members of a health maintenance organization. Beliefs about the importance of preventive health behaviors contributed more toward predicting their performance than did other respondent characteristics. These results suggest that efforts to increase the practice of preventive health behaviors by the elderly might be augmented by strengthening both theirsocial support networks and their health-promotive beliefs.

Original language	American English
Journal	Journal of Applied Gerontology
Volume	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/073346489201100404
State	Published - Dec 1 1992

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