MINOR DEPRESSIONS IN ADVANCED AGE

• Authors: Arochova O. , Potasova A.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In a research on a group of senior citizens (N = 101, aged 60-87 yrs), the highly loaded items in the Anxiety-Insomnia Subscale of the General Health Questionnaire-28 imply that advancing age is a risk factor for the onset of the so-called minor depressions. In addition, it was found that the symptoms anxiety/insomnia are more highly loaded among senior citizens than in a group of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, thus giving support to the view that there may be considerable discrepancy between real indicators of the quality of life and that experienced by an individual.

Keywords

EN

AGEING; DEPRESSION; QUALITY OF LIFE

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2003
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 121-130
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Arochova O.

author

Potasova A.

• O. Arochova, Ustav experimentalnej psychologie SAV, Dubravska cesta 9, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

04SKAAAA0022482