文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Differential associations between subjective age and depressive symptoms among urban and rural Chinese older adults

作者：Liang, Kun[1]

机构：[1]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Social Work, Shanghai, Peoples R China

年份：2020

卷号：24

期号：8

起止页码：1271

外文期刊名：AGING & MENTAL HEALTH

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000486280800001)，SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000486280800001)】；

基金：This work was supported by the Shanghai Pujiang Program under Grant No. 15PJC018 and Shanghai Social Science Foundation under Grant No. 2018BSH011.

语种：英文

外文关键词：Subjective age; depression; later life; urban-rural difference

摘要：Objectives: Little research has investigated the prospective association between subjective-aging-perception and depressive symptoms in Chinese older adults. The aim of this study is to evaluate the differential associations of feeling old with depressive symptoms among urban and rural community-dwelling Chinese older adults using panel data drawn from two waves of nationally representative surveys. Method: We conducted secondary data analysis and utilized the data of 5,685 urban and 5,612 rural community-dwelling older adults aged 60 years and above who participated in both the 2006 and the 2010 Sample Survey on the Aged Population in Urban/Rural China (SSAPUR). A single-item measure of subjective age was used to distinguish between feeling old and feeling not old. Results: Ordinary least regression analyses indicated that the longitudinal effect of subjective age on depressive symptoms existed only in the urban sample (p<.001) but not in the rural sample and that feeling not old was related to less depressive symptoms in the urban sample, after controlling for baseline measures of depressive symptoms and sociodemographic and health factors. Conclusion: This study provides new longitudinal evidence of the impact of subjective age on depression among Chinese older individuals. The findings provide useful information for depression interventions among urban older Chinese individuals.