Psychosocial risk factors and mortality: A prospective study with special focus on social support, social participation, and locus of control in Norway

摘要

Conclusion-The effect of social partici- pation and locus of control may indicate that life style, and individual psychologi- cal resources, are at least as important for survival as support form others in stress- ful life situations. Study objective-The objective is to inves- Tigate the effect on mortality of psycho- Social variables, with special focus on Social support, social participation, and Locus of control. Design-The study is designed as a pro- Spective study with a 17 year follow up Period, using univariate and multivariate Proportional hazards regression analysis To estimate the predictive power of psy- Chosocial variables, when controlling for Sociodemographic and biological factors.