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| Evaluating the stress-buffering function of meaning in life among older people | | Author(s) | Neal Krause |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 19, no 5, October 2007 |
| Pages | pp 792-812 |
| Source | http://www.sagepublications.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Stress ; Adjustment ; Life satisfaction ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The author uses data from a nationwide US longitudinal survey of 1093 older adults to see whether a strong sense of meaning in life helps them to cope more effectively with the effects of lifetime stressors. Questions were asked about traumatic events at any point in an individual's life and depressive symptoms. While the findings suggest that meaning tends to offset such deleterious impacts, these effects were observed only when the cross-sectional data were examined. In contrast, statistically significant stress-buffering effects were not present when the impact of trauma and meaning on change in depressive symptoms over time was evaluated. These findings provide a basis for devising interventions to help older people cope more effectively with the effects of traumatic events that have arisen in their lives. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080131206 A |
| Classmark | ENR: QNH: DR: F:5HH: 3J: 7T |
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