Widowhood, gender, and depression - A longitudinal analysis
Widowhood, gender, and depression - A longitudinal analysis
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DOI：
10.1177/0164027506294098
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
DeMaris, Alfred
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作者：
Lee, Gary R.;DeMaris, Alfred
许多横断面研究发现，从心理上来说，丧偶对于男性来说是比女性更困难的经历。然而，大多数纵向研究发现要么没有性别差异，要么对女性的影响稍大。作者试图利用前两波全国家庭和住户调查的数据来解决这一悖论。他们发现，与妻子存活到时间 2 的男性相比，在两次浪潮之间妻子去世的男性在时间 1 时就已经处于高度抑郁状态。对于女性来说，没有这样的预期效应。尝试用妻子的健康、照顾和婚姻质量等时间 1 的预测因素来解释丧偶前男性抑郁症的升高，但基本上没有成功。然而，作者认为，研究丧偶后抑郁症变化的纵向研究可能会忽略妻子去世前男性抑郁症的增加。
Many cross-sectional studies have found that widowhood is psychologically a more difficult experience for men than for women. However, most longitudinal studies have found either no gender difference or a slightly greater effect for women. The authors attempted to resolve this paradox with data from the first two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households. They found that men whose wives died between the two waves were already highly depressed at time 1, compared with men whose wives survived until time 2. There was no such anticipatory effect for women. Attempts to explain men's elevated depression before widowhood, with predictors involving wife's health, caregiving, and marital quality at time 1, were largely unsuccessful. However, the authors suggest that longitudinal studies that examine change in depression after widowhood may miss the increase in depression for men that appears to occur before their wives' deaths.