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Everyday competence and depressive symptoms
— social support and sense of control as mediators or moderators? | | Author(s) | K-L Chou |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 9, no 2, March 2005 |
| Pages | pp 177-183 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Symptoms ; Informal care ; Self care capacity ; Correlation ; Hong Kong. |
| Annotation | Depression is common among older members of Hong Kong Chinese society. This study's objective is to re-assess the relationship between everyday competence and depressive symptoms and to test whether sense of control and social support mediate and moderate the impact of deterioration in everyday competence on depressive symptoms. Respondents were 393 Hong Kong Chinese aged 60+ from a cross-sectional representative community sample who were interviewed using a structured questionnaire. In multiple regression analyses, everyday competence was found to be significantly and negatively related to depressive symptoms after adjusting for age, gender, marital status, years of education, self-rated health status and number of chronic diseases. Moreover, both sense of control and social support were mediators in the linkage between everyday competence and depression. However, neither sense of control nor social support moderated the effect of everyday competence on depression. Findings suggest that both sense of control and social support play important roles in the relationship between everyday competence and depression. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050426218 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CT: P6: CA: 49: 7DR |
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