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| Age and depression in the post-communist Czech Republic | | Author(s) | Joseph Hraba, Frederick O Lorenz, Zdenka Pechacova |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 19, no 4, December 1997 |
| Pages | pp 442-461 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Ill health ; Poor elderly ; Isolation ; Czechoslovakia. |
| Annotation | In the United States (US) and western Europe, research has demonstrated that depression increases with older age. Three sources of stress are thought to account for this relationship: economic stress, poor health, and social isolation. The relationship between these sources of stress and depression may be direct or mediated by mastery. This study tested this pattern on a sample of 647 older women and 554 older men in the Czech Republic in 1994. Findings revealed that age was related to the three sources of stress and they were associated with depression. After controls for mastery, the effect of poor health on stress and depression remained strong for both women and men. The relationship between economic stress and depression also remained strong for men. However, it is older men's sense of deprivation relative to the communist past, rather than absolute economic hardship, that causes their depression. For women, the effect of economic hardship was mediated by mastery. Mastery also mediated the effect of social isolation on women's depression, but not for men. The authors conclude that the relation between age, economic stress, and depression in the Czech Republic may change in the future. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980723403 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CH: F:W6: TP: 7AC |
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