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| Longitudinal relationships between depressive symptoms and health in normal older and middle-aged adults | | Author(s) | Suzanne Meeks, Stanley A Murrell, Rochelle C Mehl |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 15, no 1, March 2000 |
| Pages | pp 100-109 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Symptoms ; Health [elderly] ; Ill health ; Age groups [elderly] ; Middle aged ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Comorbidity between health and depression is salient in later life, when risk for physical illness rises. Other community studies have not distinguished between the effects of brief and long-standing depressive symptoms in excess morbidity and mortality. S Cohen and M S Rodriguez's (1995) differential hypothesis of pathways between depression and health was used to examine the relationships between health and depression in a prospective probability sample of 1,479 middle-aged and older people living in the community. Findings suggest that different durations of depressive symptoms have different relationships to health. Health had an impact on short-term increases in depressive symptoms, but depressive symptoms had a weaker impact on health. The reciprocal impact was indistinguishable from the health influence on depression. In contrast, longer term depressive symptoms had a clear impact on health. The results imply that physical illness can affect depressive states; and depressive traits but not states can affect illness. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000613410 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CT: CC: CH: BB: SE: 3J: 7T |
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