Annotated Bibliography
Jamiah Riddick
Walden University
FPSY – 8700;
Dissertation Literature Review Lab
Jan 16th, 2021
Dr. Hart
Gale, C. R., Cooper, C., Deary, I. J., & Sayer, A. A. (2014). Psychological well-being and incident frailty in men and women: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Psychological medicine, 44(4), 697-706. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291713001384
The article by Gale et al, (2014) aims at investigating the psychological wellbeing of men and women associated with the incidence of physical frailty. The article evaluates how men and women with high levels of psychological wellbeing behave or tend to be. This will bring put an impact that mental status among middle-aged women how they age.
The researchers add that maintaining a stronger sense of psychological well-being in later life may safeguard one against the development of physical frailty. It was observed that older people that enjoy life more tend to live longer which shows that psychological well-being may be a potential resource for effective aging.
Ciciurkaite, G., & Perry, B. L. (2018). Body weight, perceived weight stigma and mental health among women at the intersection of race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status: Insights from the modified labelling approach. Sociology of health & illness, 40(1), 18-37.https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12619
The study by Ciciurkaite and Perry (2018), brings out how weight impacts the mental health of women. Due to the increased rate of obesity, attention otoife chances as well as psychological consequences related to weight stigma as well as weight-based discrimination tends to have intensified. Weight is thus treated as a factor that impacts the women’s mental health.
There is a high rate of obesity in the United States, amd thus attention to life changes and psychological impacts rated to weigh stigma and weight based discrimination has maximized. Based on the article the higher social status has a buffering impact of weight stigma on psychological well-being.
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