The relationship between age and depressive symptoms: A test of competing explanatory and suppression influences
The relationship between age and depressive symptoms: A test of competing explanatory and suppression influences
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DOI：
10.1177/089826430201400205
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发表时间：
2002-05-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Taylor, J
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作者：
Schieman, S;Van Gundy, K;Taylor, J
目的：本研究的目的是检验年龄和抑郁症状之间的负相关的解释和抑制的相互竞争的影响。方法：使用两个样本：一个是残障人士的社区样本，另一个是与年龄、性别和居住地区匹配的对照样本。结果：老年人、残疾人和非残疾人之间较少的经济困难和较少的消极人际交往经历是年龄与抑郁症状负相关的原因。老年残疾人的宗教信仰综合指标得分较高，也是年龄负面影响的部分原因。相反，在这两个样本中，年龄较大的受访者的掌控感较低，会抑制负年龄斜率的大小。讨论：根据压力过程和社会情绪选择性理论对研究结果进行了讨论，这些理论预测，个人和社会安排在整个生命过程中对情绪体验的影响是不同的。
Objective: The objective is to examine competing explanatory and suppression influences on a negative, linear association between age and depressive symptoms. Methods: Two sample, were used: a community sample of physically disabled individuals and a comparison sample matched an age, sex, and area of residence. Results: Fewer economic hardships and fewer experiences of negative interpersonal exchanges among older disabled and nondisabled respondents account for the negative relationship between age and depressive symptoms. Higher scores on a composite measure of religiosity among older disabled adults also account for part of the negative age effect. Conversely, a lower sense of mastery among older respondents in both samples suppresses the size of the negative age slope. Discussion: Findings are discussed in terms of stress process and socioemotional selectivity theories, which predict that personal and social arrangements influence the experience of emotions differentially across the life course.