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Life regrets and pride among low-income older adults
— relationships with depressive symptoms, current life stressors and coping resources | | Author(s) | Namkee G Choi, Jina Jun |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 13, no 2, March 2009 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, March 2009 |
| Pages | pp 213-225 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Poor elderly ; Depression ; Stress ; Bereavement ; Attitude ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors examined the contents and intensities of both life regrets and pride in a convenience sample of 213 low-income older Americans and the association between the contents and intensities of life regrets and pride on the one hand, and the older adults' current life stressors, coping resources and depressive symptoms on the other. Regrets about education, career and marriage were common, but intensities of regret were higher for issues related to finance or money, family conflict and children's problems, loss and grief, and health. Common sources of pride were related to children and parenting, career, volunteering or informal caregiving, long or strong marriage, and personal growth or self. Controlling for current life stressors of disability, money worries, loneliness and overdependence on others for management of daily life and coping resources for social support and religiosity, the intensities of loss- and grief-related regrets, and the pride in long or strong marriage were significant predictors of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) scores. However, the regrets and pride explained a small amount of the variance in the GDS scores, while the current life stressors explained a large portion of the variance. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090616209 A |
| Classmark | F:W6: ENR: QNH: DW: DP: 49: 7T |
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