@article{24491721d2ee4112a80205ae48935687,
title = "Social Support Moderates the Negative Association Between Reduced Driving and Life Satisfaction in Older Adults",
abstract = "When older adults reduce their driving, there can be subsequent decreases in life satisfaction. In this cross-sectional study, we used baseline data from the multi-site Longitudinal Research on Aging Drivers (LongROAD) study to examine whether social support moderates the negative association between reduced driving and life satisfaction. The outcome variable was life satisfaction, and the main predictor variable was past-year reduced driving (yes/no). Emotional, instrumental, and informational social support were measured using PROMIS v2.0 (Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System) items. We used generalized linear regression models to examine how social support moderated the association between reduced driving and life satisfaction. Statistical adjustment for social support attenuated the negative effect of reduced driving on life satisfaction by ~10% for all three types of social support.",
keywords = "driving, emotional support, informational support, instrumental support, satisfaction, social support",
author = "Jones, {Vanya C.} and Johnson, {Renee M.} and Carey Borkoski and Rebok, {George W.} and Gielen, {Andrea C.} and Carl Soderstrom and Molnar, {Lisa J.} and Pitts, {Samantha I.} and Carolyn DiGuiseppi and Linda Hill and David Strogatz and Mielenz, {Thelma J.} and Betz, {Marian E.} and Tara Kelley-Baker and Eby, {David W.} and Guohua Li",
note = "Funding Information: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9048-0102 Jones Vanya C. 1 Johnson Renee M. 1 Borkoski Carey 2 Rebok George W. 1 Gielen Andrea C. 1 Soderstrom Carl 3 Molnar Lisa J. 4 Pitts Samantha I. 5 DiGuiseppi Carolyn 6 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1249-1826 Hill Linda 7 Strogatz David 8 Mielenz Thelma J. 9 Betz Marian E. 6 10 Kelley-Baker Tara 11 Eby David W. 4 Li Guohua 9 1 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA 2 Johns Hopkins School of Education, Baltimore, MD, USA 3 University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 4 University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, USA 5 The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 6 University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA 7 University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA 8 Bassett Research Institute, Cooperstown, NY, USA 9 Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA 10 University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA 11 AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, Washington, DC, USA Vanya C. Jones, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205-1999, USA. Email: vjones@jhu.edu 11 2019 0733464819884266 7 1 2019 30 9 2019 1 10 2019 {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2019 2019 Southern Gerontological Society When older adults reduce their driving, there can be subsequent decreases in life satisfaction. In this cross-sectional study, we used baseline data from the multi-site Longitudinal Research on Aging Drivers (LongROAD) study to examine whether social support moderates the negative association between reduced driving and life satisfaction. The outcome variable was life satisfaction, and the main predictor variable was past-year reduced driving (yes/no). Emotional, instrumental, and informational social support were measured using PROMIS v2.0 (Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System) items. We used generalized linear regression models to examine how social support moderated the association between reduced driving and life satisfaction. Statistical adjustment for social support attenuated the negative effect of reduced driving on life satisfaction by ~10% for all three types of social support. social support driving satisfaction emotional support instrumental support informational support AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety https://doi.org/10.13039/100003550 LongROAD edited-state corrected-proof Declaration of Conflicting Interest The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Ethical Approval This study was approved under the following Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocol/human subjects approval numbers: Columbia University (Study No. IRB-AAAN9950, Principal Investigator [PI]: G. Li), University of Michigan (Study No. HUM00094031, PI: D. Eby), and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Study No. 00006200, PI: V. Jones ). Funding The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety (Longitudinal Research on Aging Drivers [LongROAD] Study). ORCID iDs Vanya C. Jones https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9048-0102 Linda Hill https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1249-1826 Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2019.",
year = "2020",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/0733464819884266",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "39",
pages = "1258--1262",
journal = "Journal of Applied Gerontology",
issn = "0733-4648",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
number = "11",
}