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| A longitudinal study of gender differences in depressive symptoms from age 50 to 80 | | Author(s) | John C Barefoot, Erik Lykke Mortensen, Michael J Helms |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 16, no 2, June 2001 |
| Pages | pp 342-350 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Symptoms ; Older men ; Older women ; Longitudinal surveys ; Denmark. |
| Annotation | The Obvious Depression Scale was administered to 739 Dutch community residents from the Glostrup 1914 Population Study at ages 50, 60 and 80 years; 151 were present on all three occasions. Although selective attrition influenced the level of depressive symptoms in cross-sectional vs longitudinal samples, both sets of analyses revealed higher scores in women than men at ages 50 and 60, but not at 80. Men showed increases in depressive symptoms from age 60 to 80, but women did not. This interaction was not present in somatic symptoms, which increased across time in both genders. Potential explanations include differential changes in social roles with ageing. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020422001 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CT: BC: BD: 3J: 76K |
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