| Autor: |
Helena Espirito-Santo, Hugo Costa-Santos, Luís Simões-Cunha, Laura Lemos, Alexandra Grasina, Fernanda Daniel |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
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| Zdroj: |
Revista Española de Geriatría y Gerontología. 57:312-319 |
| ISSN: |
0211-139X |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.regg.2022.09.009 |
| Popis: |
Emotion dysregulation has been consistently linked to psychopathology, and the relationship between disability and depressive symptomatology in old age is well-known.To examine the mediational role of emotional dysregulation in the relationship between perceived disability and depressive symptomatology in older adults.Two hundred eighty-three participants, aged 60-96 years (M±SD=74.22±8.69; 62.9% women; 29.0% with long-term care support [LTC-S] and 71.0% community residents without LTC-S), were assessed with the Geriatric Depression Scale-8 (GDS-8), the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule-2 (WHODAS-2), and the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-16 (DERS-16).A mediation model was established, which revealed: (1) a moderate association between WHODAS-2 and GDS-8 (β=0.20; p.001); (2) DERS-16 partially and weakly mediated the relationship between WHODAS-2 and GDS-8 (β=0.003; p.01). The model explained 31.9% of the variance of depressive symptoms. An inconsistent mediation model was obtained in the LTC-S group.Globally, our findings indicate that disability has an indirect relationship with depressive symptomatology through emotional dysregulation (except for those in the LTC-S). Accordingly, we present suggestions for the treatment of depressive symptoms and for the inclusion of other emotion regulation variables in the study of the disability-depressive symptom link in future studies with older people in the LTC-S. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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