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Looking inward
— introspectiveness, physical disability and depression across the life course | | Author(s) | Karen Van Gundy, Scott Schieman |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 53, no 4, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 293-310 |
| Keywords | Cancer ; Physical disabilities ; Depression ; Adjustment ; Life span ; Social surveys ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The interrelationships between age, physical disability, introspectiveness and depression are investigated using data from a community sample of 1,567 disabled and non-disabled Canadians. This study tests whether: there are age variations in introspectiveness; age variations in introspectiveness differ by physical disability status; introspectiveness mediates the association between age and depression; introspectiveness and disability status have synergistic effects on depression; and if so, whether subjective health differences between disabled and non-disabled account for the joint impact of introspectiveness and disability status on depression. Results show that older people report less introspectiveness than do younger people; this explains part of the negative association between age and depression. Additionally, this negative association is significantly stronger in non-disabled respondents. Adjustment for less introspectiveness in older adults accounts for about 24% of the negative association between age and depression. Disabled respondents experience a more positive relationship between introspectiveness and depression; their poor global health explains most of that pattern. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020313203 A |
| Classmark | CK: BN: ENR: DR: BG6: 3F: 7S |
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