Proactive coping involves actions to prevent or alter the form of future stressors which can be important for successful aging processes, but it relies on resources. We tested internal (physical health) and external (perceptions of social status and objective socioeconomic status) resources as predictors of proactive coping. 296 adults ranging in age from 60 to 90 (M = 64.67) responded to the Mindfulness and Anticipatory Coping Everyday (MACE) survey (English et al. in Eur J Ageing, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-018-0475-2; Neupert and Bellingtier in Gerontologist 57(S2):S187–S192, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnx055). Older adults with higher subjective social status within their community possessed higher proactive coping skills than those with lower subjective social status. This finding was consistent across the older adult age range and was over and above the effects of objective socioeconomic status. In addition, older adults with more chronic health conditions reported less proactive coping than those with fewer health conditions. These results suggest that physical health along with the way older adults view their social status with respect to others in their community may have an impact on their ability to develop and use proactive coping.

主动应对涉及采取行动预防或改变未来压力源的形式，这对于成功的老龄化过程可能很重要，但它依赖于资源。我们测试了内部（身体健康）和外部（对社会地位和客观社会经济地位的看法）资源作为主动应对的预测因素。296 名 60 至 90 岁的成年人（M = 64.67) 回应了正念和预期应对日常 (MACE) 调查（English et al. in Eur J Ageing, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-018-0475-2; Neupert and Bellingtier in Gerontologist 57（S2）：S187–S192，2017，https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnx055）。社区内主观社会地位较高的老年人比主观社会地位较低的老年人具有更高的主动应对能力。这一发现在整个老年人年龄范围内是一致的，并且超出了客观社会经济地位的影响。此外，与健康状况较差的老年人相比，患有更多慢性健康状况的老年人报告的主动应对能力较差。