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| Interpersonal problem-solving of means-ends thinking, frequency and strength of pleasant and unpleasant activities and symptoms of depression in French older adults | | Author(s) | George Kleftaras |
| Journal title | Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, vol 17, no 4, 2000 |
| Pages | pp 43-64 |
| Source | Haworth Document Delivery Service, The Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA. |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Personal relationships ; Depression ; Activities of older people ; Personal relationships ; France. |
| Annotation | The relationships were investigated between depressive symptomatology in older people and: interpersonal problem-solving cognitive ability; and the strength and frequency of the occurrence of pleasant and unpleasant events and activities. 310 French semi-institutionalised older people answered the Depressive Symptomatology Questionnaire, the Means-Ends Problem-Solving Procedure, the Pleasant and Unpleasant Events Schedules for Older Adults. Regression analysis indicated that collectively these three cognitive and behavioural variables accounted for about 50% of the variance in predicting depressive symptoms. More specifically, the results revealed that the more depressed an older person: the lower the effectiveness of interpersonal problem solving; the lower the frequency, the subjective enjoyability and the obtained reinforcement of the pleasant events; and the higher the frequency, and the subjective and experienced aversion of unpleasant events. According to the results, depressive symptoms were not related to age and to length of institutionalisation. However, there was significant association with health problems. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001207210 A |
| Classmark | DA: DS: ENR: G: DS: 765 |
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