Early life adversities and discrimination, social activity, and loneliness among older adults in Europe: a moderated mediation analysis.

Objective: The present study explores how and when lifetime discriminatory experience moderates the mediation effect of early life adversities and social activity on loneliness among older European adults over eight years.

Method: The study analyzed 13,699 respondents aged 50 years and over who were interviewed in 2009 and re-interviewed in 2017 in the European Survey of Health, Ageing, Retirement. Conditional process analysis using the PROCESS model 15 was applied to examine the moderated mediation effect of lifetime discriminatory experience in 2009 () on early life adversities in 2009 () and social activity at 2017 () to loneliness in 2017 ().

The Interaction Effect of Gender and Residential Environment, Individual Resources, and Needs Satisfaction on Quality of Life Among Older Adults in the United Kingdom.

To examine the difference in gender and its impact on selected quality-of-life (QoL) domains of Social Production Function theory among older adults in England. Based on an annual national adult social care service user survey conducted in the United Kingdom in 2016. QoL was assessed by a single-item construct, and independent variables were home design, access to information and local area, self-rated health, perceived pain/discomfort, perceived anxiety/depression, activities of daily living, use and satisfaction of formal and informal care, and demographic variables.

Beaten Into Submissiveness? An Investigation Into the Protective Strategies Used by Survivors of Domestic Abuse.

The aim of the study was to identify the prevalence and perceived helpfulness of a variety of protective strategies that were used by female survivors of domestic abuse and to explore factors that may have influenced strategy usage. Forty participants were recruited from a voluntary sector domestic abuse service, commissioned by an outer London local authority in the United Kingdom, in early 2014. The measurement tools used were the Intimate Partner Violence Strategies Index (IPVSI) and the Coordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse (CAADA) Domestic Abuse, Stalking and "Honour"-Based Violence (DASH) Risk Assessment Checklist.