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Physical health, subjective health, and psychological distress in older adults
— reciprocal relationships concurrently and over time | | Author(s) | Philippe Cappeliez, Sabine Sèvre-Rousseau, Philippe Landreville |
| Journal title | Ageing International, vol 29, no 3, Summer 2004 |
| Pages | pp 247-266 |
| Source | http://www.transactionpub.com |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Depression ; Anxiety ; Stress ; Correlation ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Reciprocal associations between physical health (objectively assessed and self-rated) and psychological distress in older people are discussed. Participants in this study were 216 people aged 65+ living in the community in Quebec, Canada. Psychological distress (both depressive symptoms and anxiety level) made a significant independent contribution to the prediction of concurrent and future negative perception of one's health, over and above objective health. As anxious and depressive components of psychological distress intensify, a negative outlook on life includes an increased negative view of one's health among older people. Conversely, negative subjective health independently predicted both depressive symptoms and anxiety level, concurrently and over time, over and above objective health. It thus appears that negative health appraisal heralds psychological distress, manifested as depressive symptoms, and also anxiety among older people. Taken together, these findings draw the picture of a vicious circle of negative health appraisal leading to depression and anxiety, these in turn leading to further negative perception of health. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070503232 A |
| Classmark | CC: ENR: ENP: QNH: 49: 7S |
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