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Depression and Life Satisfaction Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Mediation Effect of Functional Disability

With increasing age, middle-aged and older persons face a series of physical and mental health problems. This study aimed to explore the latent relationships among age, functional disability, depression, and life satisfaction. The data were obtained from the Wave 2 (in 2013–2014) and Wave 3 (in 2015...

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Autores principales: Li, An, Wang, Dewen, Lin, Shengnan, Chu, Meijie, Huang, Shiling, Lee, Chun-Yang, Chiang, Yi-Chen
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8656258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34899497
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.755220
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author Li, An
Wang, Dewen
Lin, Shengnan
Chu, Meijie
Huang, Shiling
Lee, Chun-Yang
Chiang, Yi-Chen
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Wang, Dewen
Lin, Shengnan
Chu, Meijie
Huang, Shiling
Lee, Chun-Yang
Chiang, Yi-Chen
author_sort Li, An
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description With increasing age, middle-aged and older persons face a series of physical and mental health problems. This study aimed to explore the latent relationships among age, functional disability, depression, and life satisfaction. The data were obtained from the Wave 2 (in 2013–2014) and Wave 3 (in 2015–2016) surveys of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. The analytic sample in the present study included 15,950 individuals aged 45 years and over. The participants answered the same questions concerning depression and life satisfaction in both study waves, and functional disability was measured based on the activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living. Age was directly associated with functional disability, life satisfaction, and depression. Functional disability was positively correlated with depression and negatively correlated with life satisfaction. Functional disability strongly mediated the relationships among age, depression, and life satisfaction. Depression and life satisfaction were found to have enduring effects and effects on each other. Additionally, the model revealed a gender difference. Depression in middle-aged people should receive closer attention. Avoiding or improving functional disability may be an effective way to improve life satisfaction and reduce the level of depression in middle-aged and older persons. If prevention work successfully decreases depression, the life dissatisfaction of middle-aged and older people could be improved. Additionally, for the prevention of functional disability and depression and improvement in life satisfaction, gender differences need to be considered.
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spelling pubmed-86562582021-12-10 Depression and Life Satisfaction Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Mediation Effect of Functional Disability Li, An Wang, Dewen Lin, Shengnan Chu, Meijie Huang, Shiling Lee, Chun-Yang Chiang, Yi-Chen Front Psychol Psychology With increasing age, middle-aged and older persons face a series of physical and mental health problems. This study aimed to explore the latent relationships among age, functional disability, depression, and life satisfaction. The data were obtained from the Wave 2 (in 2013–2014) and Wave 3 (in 2015–2016) surveys of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. The analytic sample in the present study included 15,950 individuals aged 45 years and over. The participants answered the same questions concerning depression and life satisfaction in both study waves, and functional disability was measured based on the activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living. Age was directly associated with functional disability, life satisfaction, and depression. Functional disability was positively correlated with depression and negatively correlated with life satisfaction. Functional disability strongly mediated the relationships among age, depression, and life satisfaction. Depression and life satisfaction were found to have enduring effects and effects on each other. Additionally, the model revealed a gender difference. Depression in middle-aged people should receive closer attention. Avoiding or improving functional disability may be an effective way to improve life satisfaction and reduce the level of depression in middle-aged and older persons. If prevention work successfully decreases depression, the life dissatisfaction of middle-aged and older people could be improved. Additionally, for the prevention of functional disability and depression and improvement in life satisfaction, gender differences need to be considered. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8656258/ /pubmed/34899497 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.755220 Text en Copyright © 2021 Li, Wang, Lin, Chu, Huang, Lee and Chiang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Li, An
Wang, Dewen
Lin, Shengnan
Chu, Meijie
Huang, Shiling
Lee, Chun-Yang
Chiang, Yi-Chen
Depression and Life Satisfaction Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Mediation Effect of Functional Disability
title Depression and Life Satisfaction Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Mediation Effect of Functional Disability
title_full Depression and Life Satisfaction Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Mediation Effect of Functional Disability
title_fullStr Depression and Life Satisfaction Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Mediation Effect of Functional Disability
title_full_unstemmed Depression and Life Satisfaction Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Mediation Effect of Functional Disability
title_short Depression and Life Satisfaction Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Mediation Effect of Functional Disability
title_sort depression and life satisfaction among middle-aged and older adults: mediation effect of functional disability
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8656258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34899497
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.755220
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