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| Paternal attachment as a risk factor for depression in older women | | Author(s) | Amy L Byers, Carol van Doorn, Stanislav V Kasl |
| Journal title | Journal of Mental Health and Aging, vol 9 no 3, Fall 2003 |
| Pages | pp 157-170 |
| Keywords | Older women ; Depression ; Family relationships ; Death ; Father ; Correlation ; Australia. |
| Annotation | According to Jung, females develop a stronger attachment to their fathers than to their mothers. The authors examined whether this attachment influenced the likelihood of depression in 487 women aged 70+ in the Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing. As hypothesised, they found that women whose fathers died at a younger age than their mothers were more likely to report depression than women whose fathers died at an equivalent or older age than their mothers, adjusting for age, education, self-rated health, number of medications, activities of daily living (ADL) problems, quality of family life, and satisfaction with life in general. The effect among females was about two times more likely than in males. These findings suggest that age of father's death relative to age of mothers's death is a potential risk factor for depression specific to older women. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040519203 A |
| Classmark | BD: ENR: DS:SJ: CW: SR6: 49: 7YA |
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