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| The effect of a communal lifestyle on depressive symptoms in late life | | Author(s) | Tzvia Blumstein, Yael Benyamini, Zahava Fuchs |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 16, no 2, April 2004 |
| Pages | pp 151-174 |
| Source | http://www.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Symptoms ; Older men ; Older women ; Living with others ; Living in the community ; Comparison ; Longitudinal surveys ; Israel. |
| Annotation | This study compares depressive levels of 525 lifetime kibbutz members and 366 old-age kibbutz residents with a comparable national Israeli sample of 412, and assesses the relationship between depression and individual differences related to a lifetime in a kibbutz (e.g. health) and those related to current living conditions (e.g. social networks). The analysis is based on data from the Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Aging Study conducted in Israel between 1989 nd 1992, and the follow-up during 1993 and 1994. The findings indicate significantly lower levels of depressive symptomatology for women but not men residing in kibbutz communities. Women's lower levels of depressive symptoms appear to be a result of kibbutz members' better physical and mental functioning, and of such favourable lifestyle characteristics as old-age kibbutz residents' frequent contact with their children. Both lifetime and current living conditions contribute to better mental health of women in the kibbutz at older ages. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040909201 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CT: BC: BD: KA: K4: 48: 3J: 7H6 |
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