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| Social relations and depressive symptomatology in a sample of community-dwelling French older adults | | Author(s) | Toni C Antonucci, Rebecca Fuhrer, Jean-François Dartigues |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 12, no 1, March 1997 |
| Pages | pp 189-195 |
| Keywords | Mental health [elderly] ; Depression ; Personal relationships ; Social contacts ; Living in the community ; Social surveys ; France. |
| Annotation | This study examined the association between social relations and mental health, specifically the relative contribution of social networks and support to depressive symptomatology, in a sample of 5,555 people aged 65 and over, from the PAQUID (Personnes Agées Quid) Research Programme in Aquitaine, France. Findings indicate that French older people generally had more than 8 people in their networks - mainly family members - and they felt understood by most of the network members. They reported being satisfied with their social relations. Sociodemographic variables contribute to depressive symptomatology, as did social network and social support variables. Sociodemographic, social network, and social support variables together increased the variance explained still further. Results were consistent with similar analyses in the United States, and indicated that the social support variables account for more variance in depressive symptomatology than social network variables. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971120249 A |
| Classmark | D: ENR: DS: TOA: K4: 3F: 765 |
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