Longitudinal Study of Life Events, Well-Being, Emotional Regulation and Depressive Symptomatology

The aim of this study is to explore the content of lay definitions of happiness containing food/drink and food-related terms. This research is part of CRO-WELL—the Croatian Longitudinal Study of Well-Being project—which was conducted via an online application consisting of a comprehensive battery of questionnaires related to well-being and life events. The current study uses only an open-ended question in which the respondents provide their own definition of happiness by answering the question “What is happiness for you?” Definitions containing food-related terms (N = 207) were selected for the purpose of this study. The central purpose of this research is to explore which meals/food/drink people include in these definitions, and under what circumstances. Some respondents mentioned specific types of food/drink, while others (33.3%) used generic terms such as “food,” “lunch,” or “meal.” The most frequently mentioned specific food or drink items were coffee (28%) and sweets (22.1%). Two main dimensions of values attributed to food emerged: hedonic (76.8%) -existential (18.3%) and individual (52.2%) -social (44%). The study offers an explanatory model suitable for classifying the main values of food expressed within people's subjective constructs of happiness.

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The mediating role of rumination and personal growth on pandemic depression: a longitudinal study

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igab046.2692 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 728-728

Author(s):

Teresa Paniagua ◽

Virginia Fernández-Fernández ◽

MªÁngeles Molina Martínez

Keyword(s):

Longitudinal Study ◽

Regression Model ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Life Events ◽

Personal Growth ◽

Emotional Regulation ◽

The Elderly ◽

Hierarchical Regression ◽

Emotional Process ◽

The Impact

Abstract Introduction The experience of recent months, caused by COVID-19 pandemic including strict home confinement, has required older people to implement coping strategies to combat the harmful effects of depression and associated loneliness. Method: longitudinal study, including functionally and cognitively independent people over 65, three temporal evaluation measures: WAVE1 (6 months pre-COVID-19, N=305; M=73.63; 58.9% women), WAVE2 (during home confinement; N=151; M=73.14; 59.6% women) and WAVE3 (8 months post-WAVE2; N = 85; M=72.62; 64.70% women). Bivariate correlations and a multiple hierarchical regression model are performed to explain the variance of depression in WAVE3 from rumination and growth on general life events (in WAVE1) and rumination and personal growth associated with COVID-19, both in WAVE2 and WAVE3. Results statistically significant correlations are obtained between all the variables. The regression model explains 65.7% of the variance of depression (all steps significant). Both rumination (B=0.45;p=0.00) and growth (B=-0.40;p=0.00) on general life events (WAVE1) explain 54.5% of the depression in WAVE3. Rumination on COVID (B=.310;p≤0.01) in WAVE2 and the growth over COVID (B=-0.24;p≤0.01) in WAVE3, allow a significant explanation of 6.8 and 4.4% of the proposed model, respectively. Conclusions it seems clear the impact that emotional regulation strategies have on life events over time. In addition, rumination is an emotional process of maladaptive coping also in the face of the pandemic. However, the growth capacity of the person is a useful tool to combat the damaging effects of negative life events. In the elderly, it seems necessary to influence and bet on positive coping strategies.

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Medical students' cognitive appraisal of stressful life events as related to personality, physical well-being, and academic performance: a longitudinal study

Personality and Individual Differences ◽

10.1016/s0191-8869(02)00186-1 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 219-235 ◽

Cited By ~ 58

Author(s):

Mohammadreza Hojat ◽

Joseph S Gonnella ◽

James B Erdmann ◽

Wolfgang H Vogel

Keyword(s):

Academic Performance ◽

Longitudinal Study ◽

Medical Students ◽

Life Events ◽

Stressful Life Events ◽

Cognitive Appraisal ◽

Well Being ◽

Stressful Life

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Emotion regulation profiles of development of depressive symptomatology: a longitudinal study

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igab046.3111 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 859-859

Author(s):

Teresa Paniagua ◽

Virginia Fernández-Fernández ◽

MªÁngeles Molina Martínez

Keyword(s):

Emotion Regulation ◽

Longitudinal Study ◽

Older People ◽

Emotional Regulation ◽

Depressive Symptomatology ◽

Psychological Impact ◽

Medium Term ◽

Evaluation Measures ◽

Regulation Strategies ◽

Low Levels

Abstract Introduction COVID-19 pandemic has had a psychological impact on the eldest population. The aim is to analyse whether there are differences depending on the emotional regulation profile shown by a group of older people 6 months before the pandemic and the depressive symptomatology of these people at the same time, during home confinement and 8 months later. Method: Longitudinal study, sample of people over 65, three evaluation measures: WAVE1 (6 months before COVID-19,N=305;M=73.63;58.9% women), WAVE2 (house confinement;N=151;M=73.14;59.6% women) and WAVE3 (8 months later;N=91;M=72.62;64.70% women). We measured depressive symptomatology (CES-D; Radloff, 1977) and nine emotional regulation strategies (CERQ-S; Garnefski et al., 2001; Carvajal et al., 2020), with which 3 clusters were preset (after dendogram inspection and K means analysis). Three mean difference analyses (one-factor ANOVA) were performed taking as factor profiles and as outcomes variables depression in each wave. Results profile 1, people use adaptive cognitive-emotional regulation strategies; profile 2, those with low levels of strategies (adaptive and maladaptive); profile 3, high scores in maladaptive strategies. Statistically significant differences between profiles 1 and 3, in the pre-confinement depression variable (F'2,91=6.18;p=.00) and during confinement (F'2,91=4.02;p=.02). Profile 3 higher depressive symptomatology (x̄1=17.16;x̄2=16.80) than 1 (x̄1=8.41;x̄2=9.65). Differences between profile 1 and 2 and 3 in depression 8 months after confinement (F’2,91=4.02;p=.02). Profile 1 lower levels of depression (x̄3=98.00) than 2 (x̄3=15.78) and 3 (x̄3=14.20). Profiles explain 12.3%, 8.4% and 12.5% of the depression variance in each wave. Conclusions a “protected profile” (1), a “medium-term vulnerable profile” (2) and a “vulnerable profile” (3) to the development of depressive symptomatology.

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Transition to Widowhood: Trajectories of Depressive Symptomatology Among Japanese Older Adults

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igab046.1099 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 284-285

Author(s):

Masumi Iida ◽

Shohei Okamoto ◽

Ikuko Sugawara ◽

Erika Kobayashi

Keyword(s):

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Life Events ◽

Depressive Symptomatology ◽

Well Being ◽

Data Set ◽

Spousal Loss ◽

Japanese Adults ◽

Japanese Elderly ◽

Japanese Older Adults ◽

Health And Well Being

Abstract Spousal loss is one of the most consequential negative life events for the surviving partners. While there is abundant research on mental health and well-being of widows, most of these studies rely on the post-bereavement data. In this study, we use the data from the National Survey of Japanese Elderly (NSJE), which is a publicly available longitudinal data set collected from Japanese adults aged 60 years and older. The current study uses the first seven waves of data from 1987 to 2006, where participants were followed every three to four years. Using the NSJE advances our understanding of the bereavement process as it allows us to observe the levels and trajectories of depressive symptom before, during, and after the loss of their spouses. In our analyses, we selected 522 participants (average age at bereavement: 75.0 years; 27% male) who experienced spousal loss at some point during the seven waves. We examined the trajectories of depressive symptoms assessed using CES-D as these participants transition to widowhood. The results showed a small significant increase in depressive symptoms leading up to the time of the loss. There was also a significant increase in symptoms at the time of the loss, but we did not observe any decline in symptoms after the loss. In addition, we found that their age at bereavement significantly moderated the pattern, such that the increase in depressive symptoms at the time of the loss was attenuated for older participants. The implications of these findings will be discussed.

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Dyadic Loneliness and HbA1c Levels Among Older Married Couples: Evidence From The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igab046.2778 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 755-755

Author(s):

Jeffrey Stokes ◽

Adrita Barooah

Keyword(s):

Longitudinal Study ◽

Life Events ◽

Intimate Relationships ◽

Employment Status ◽

Married Couples ◽

Well Being ◽

Stress Generation ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Cardiometabolic Health ◽

Hba1c Levels

Abstract Loneliness is an important determinant of health and mortality among the aging population, including for cardiometabolic health. Yet research has largely focused on individual experiences of loneliness, rather than taking intimate relationships into account. However, recent studies have highlighted that the psychosocial well-being of one’s partner may impact one’s own health as well. Indeed, the stress generation hypothesis anticipates that loneliness in one partner may lead to more stressful interactions within relationships, and thus to worse health outcomes for both spouses. This is particularly true among older couples, as life events and shifting time horizons (e.g., retirement, socioemotional selectivity, reduced social networks) lead older persons to focus more time and energy on their closest relationships. Life events such as retirement may make adults’ intimate relationships – and the experiences of their partner – more salient than ever before. In this study, we use dyadic structural equation modeling to examine associations between loneliness and HbA1c levels among 1,331 older married couples from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing. Further, we test whether any such associations vary by age or employment status. Results indicate that one’s own loneliness was not significantly linked with elevated HbA1c, irrespective of age or employment status. However, loneliness of a dyadic partner was significantly associated with elevated HbA1c among retired persons only. Further, this effect was not due to age, but rather to employment status itself. These findings suggest that relationship context is crucial when considering the dyadic health implications of loneliness among the older population.

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34. PATTERNS OF CONTRACEPTIVE USE AFTER REPRODUCTIVE EVENTS: FINDINGS FROM THE AUSTRALIAN LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF WOMEN'S HEALTH

Sexual Health ◽

10.1071/shv4n4ab34 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 297

Author(s):

J. C. Lucke ◽

M. Spallek

Keyword(s):

Longitudinal Study ◽

Women’S Health ◽

Women's Health ◽

Life Events ◽

Contraceptive Use ◽

Pap Test ◽

Well Being ◽

Reproductive Age ◽

Self Report ◽

Australian Longitudinal Study

This paper examines changes in young women's contraceptive use over nine years in relation to a range of reproductive life events using longitudinal data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH). Little previous research has examined changes in young women's contraceptive use after significant reproductive or health life events. Some research has examined the reasons that women might discontinue contraceptive use in general and there has been some work investigating contraceptive use after the birth of a child and after the termination of a pregnancy. However other events may also cause a woman to re-evaluate her contraception, for example, the diagnosis of an STD, or having an abnormal pap test. The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health is a broad-ranging project which examines relationships between many biological, physiological, social and lifestyle factors and women's physical health, emotional well-being, and use of and satisfaction with health services. Women were selected from the Medicare database which includes all citizens and permanent residents using stratified random sampling, with systematic over-sampling of women from rural and remote areas. This paper presents data from 6716 women who completed a self-report survey in 1996 when they were aged 18-23, and again in 1999, 2002 and 2005. Multinomial analysis is used to explore patterns of contraceptive use before and after events related to pregnancy and birth (pregnancy, live birth, miscarriage and termination of pregnancy) and health (diagnosis with a sexually-transmitted infection and abnormal Pap test) and the factors associated with changes in contraceptive use. The ALSWH provides an exciting opportunity to examine patterns of contraceptive use over time among women of reproductive age.

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