Publications by authors named "A Reinwarth"
Background: Understanding the trajectories of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) across different age cohorts and sociodemographic factors is crucial for promoting healthy aging. This study aims to examine the course of physical and mental HRQoL over a 16-year period in a nationwide sample of the German population.
Methods: Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel spanning from 2002 to 2018 (N = 4111; female = 52.
Background: Loneliness has become a major public health issue of the recent decades due to its severe impact on health and mortality. Little is known about the relation between loneliness and social anxiety. This study aimed (1) to explore levels of loneliness and social anxiety in the general population, and (2) to assess whether and how loneliness affects symptoms of social anxiety and vice versa over a period of five years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAge-related cognitive decline has become an increasingly relevant public health issue. However, risk and protective factors of cognitive decline have yet to be investigated prospectively taking into account genetic, lifestyle, physical and mental health factors. Population-based data from middle-aged (40 to 59 years; N = 2,764) and older individuals (60 to 80 years; N = 1,254) were drawn from a prospective community cohort study using the Tower of London (TOL) planning task.
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- - The study evaluated the Resilience Scale-5 (RS-5) for measuring psychological resilience, which is important for mental health, using data from nearly 7,500 participants aged 25 to 86 over five years.
- - Results showed that the RS-5 has strong reliability and validity, with an average resilience score of 28.94; older participants (≥75) scored the highest, and resilience was linked to factors like gender, age, education, and income.
- - The RS-5 is presented as an effective tool for measuring resilience in different demographics, providing updated norms specific to the German population to better understand how various factors influence resilience levels.
Objective: The purpose of the present study was to develop and validate a brief screening instrument (F-SozU K-3) for the measurement of perceived social support in large scale surveys by shortening a well-established German questionnaire (F-SozU K-6).
Method: First, a brief three-item version of the F-SozU was developed based on a representative sample of = 2482 respondents using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Second, the newly developed brief three-item questionnaire was evaluated and standardized in an independent second representative population sample ( = 2501).