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Stress, Hope, and Depression Among Older Adults Living in Public Housing
Individuals living in public housing often experience myriad stressors related to poverty and mental illness. The current study explores how hope impacts the relationship between stress and depression in a sample of adults (aged 51-90 years; Mage= 63.3 years; SDage= 8.6 years) living in public housi...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7740118/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1084 |
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author | Montpetit, Mignon James-Smith, LaKeesha Gourley, Amy |
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description | Individuals living in public housing often experience myriad stressors related to poverty and mental illness. The current study explores how hope impacts the relationship between stress and depression in a sample of adults (aged 51-90 years; Mage= 63.3 years; SDage= 8.6 years) living in public housing. Questionnaire data were collected before and after running an intervention geared toward improving residents’ well-being. Results of the initial questionnaire study suggest that hope moderates the stress -> depression relationship (p = .001), with effects in the expected directions: individuals exhibiting higher-than-average levels of stress and below-average hope reported the highest levels of depression. Data further suggest modest increases in hope post-intervention (p = .06). Overall, results suggest that hope may be important in helping mitigate the impact of life stress on vulnerable individuals, and that it can be augmented in the context of a short-term, cost-effective intervention. |
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spelling | pubmed-77401182020-12-21 Stress, Hope, and Depression Among Older Adults Living in Public Housing Montpetit, Mignon James-Smith, LaKeesha Gourley, Amy Innov Aging Abstracts Individuals living in public housing often experience myriad stressors related to poverty and mental illness. The current study explores how hope impacts the relationship between stress and depression in a sample of adults (aged 51-90 years; Mage= 63.3 years; SDage= 8.6 years) living in public housing. Questionnaire data were collected before and after running an intervention geared toward improving residents’ well-being. Results of the initial questionnaire study suggest that hope moderates the stress -> depression relationship (p = .001), with effects in the expected directions: individuals exhibiting higher-than-average levels of stress and below-average hope reported the highest levels of depression. Data further suggest modest increases in hope post-intervention (p = .06). Overall, results suggest that hope may be important in helping mitigate the impact of life stress on vulnerable individuals, and that it can be augmented in the context of a short-term, cost-effective intervention. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7740118/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1084 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Montpetit, Mignon James-Smith, LaKeesha Gourley, Amy Stress, Hope, and Depression Among Older Adults Living in Public Housing |
title | Stress, Hope, and Depression Among Older Adults Living in Public Housing |
title_full | Stress, Hope, and Depression Among Older Adults Living in Public Housing |
title_fullStr | Stress, Hope, and Depression Among Older Adults Living in Public Housing |
title_full_unstemmed | Stress, Hope, and Depression Among Older Adults Living in Public Housing |
title_short | Stress, Hope, and Depression Among Older Adults Living in Public Housing |
title_sort | stress, hope, and depression among older adults living in public housing |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7740118/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1084 |
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