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The relationship between age and depressive symptoms — a test of competing explanatory and suppression influences
Author(s)	Scott Schieman, Karen van Gundy, John Taylor
Journal title	Journal of Aging and Health, vol 14, no 2, May 2002
Pages	pp 260-285
Keywords	Depression ; Symptoms ; Physical disabilities ; Cross sectional surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	Two samples were used for this American research: a community sample of physically disabled individuals; and a comparison sample matched on age, sex and area of residence. Fewer economic hardships and experiences of negative interpersonal exchanges among older disabled and non-disabled adults also account for part of 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. 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. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-020521207 A
Classmark	ENR: CT: BN: 3KB: 7T
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