Supplemental Material for Stressful Life Events and Orthostatic Blood Pressure Recovery in Older Adults

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Pressure Recovery ◽  
Orthostatic Blood Pressure

Stressful life events and orthostatic blood pressure recovery in older adults.

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 765-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Feeney ◽  
Cara Dooley ◽  
Ciarán Finucane ◽  
Rose Anne Kenny
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Pressure Recovery ◽  
Orthostatic Blood Pressure

The Impact of Stressful Life Events and Social Support on Drinking among Older Adults: A General Population Survey

1992 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen M. Jennison
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Prolonged Exposure ◽  
Drinking Behavior ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Stress Buffering ◽  
The Impact

This article is an analysis of stressful life events, the buffering hypothesis, and alcohol use in a national sample of 1,418 respondents 60 years of age and over. The results indicate that older adults who experience stressful losses are significantly more likely to drink excessively than those who have not experienced such losses or who have experienced them to a lesser extent. Increased drinking among older adults may therefore be a reaction to life circumstances in which alcohol represents an attempt to cope with traumatic loss, personal as well as within the kinship network. Supportive resources of spouse, family, friends, and church appear to have a stress-buffering effects that reduces the excessive-drinking response to life crisis. Data suggest, however, that older persons are vulnerable to the magnitude of losses experienced as they grow older and lose more of their family, friends, and peers. These stressors appear to seriously impact their drinking behavior and are not effectively buffered. Respondents report that drinking may increase during periods of prolonged exposure to emotionally depleting life change and loss, when supportive needs may exceed the capacities of personal and social support resources.

scholarly journals Polygenic risk, stressful life events and depressive symptoms in older adults: a polygenic score analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
pp. 1709-1720 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. L. Musliner ◽  
F. Seifuddin ◽  
J. A. Judy ◽  
M. Pirooznia ◽  
F. S. Goes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Stressful Event ◽  
Polygenic Risk ◽  
Polygenic Scores

Background.Previous studies suggest that the relationship between genetic risk and depression may be moderated by stressful life events (SLEs). The goal of this study was to assess whether SLEs moderate the association between polygenic risk of major depressive disorder (MDD) and depressive symptoms in older adults.Method.We used logistic and negative binomial regressions to assess the associations between polygenic risk, SLEs and depressive symptoms in a sample of 8761 participants from the Health and Retirement Study. Polygenic scores were derived from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium genome-wide association study of MDD. SLEs were operationalized as a dichotomous variable indicating whether participants had experienced at least one stressful event during the previous 2 years. Depressive symptoms were measured using an eight-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale subscale and operationalized as both a dichotomous and a count variable.Results.The odds of reporting four or more depressive symptoms were over twice as high among individuals who experienced at least one SLE (odds ratio 2.19, 95% confidence interval 1.86–2.58). Polygenic scores were significantly associated with depressive symptoms (β= 0.21,p⩽ 0.0001), although the variance explained was modest (pseudor2= 0.0095). None of the interaction terms for polygenic scores and SLEs was statistically significant.Conclusions.Polygenic risk and SLEs are robust, independent predictors of depressive symptoms in older adults. Consistent with an additive model, we found no evidence that SLEs moderated the association between common variant polygenic risk and depressive symptoms.

scholarly journals COPING BEHAVIORS THAT INCREASE STRESS AMONG OLDER ADULTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S958-S958
Author(s):  
G Rainville ◽  
Alicia R Williams ◽  
Lona Choi-Allum
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Coping Behaviors ◽  
Sample Analysis ◽  
Full Sample ◽  
Stress Buffering ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This study examined the efficacy of a series of 28 behaviors (e.g., comfort eating, attending worship services, getting a massage, etc.) in moderating the perception of stress among older adults. First, 28 individual behaviors were assessed to determine whether they buffered or exacerbated the impact of an objective stress measure (i.e., the count of stressful life events) on perceptions of stress (measured using Cohen’s Perceived Stress Scale [PSS]). A full sample analysis used data from 1,000 randomly selected U.S. adults age 40 and older, but subsequent analyses explored coping behaviors for two age groups—those age 40 to 59 and those 60 and older. In the full sample analysis, multiple moderating conditions were noted including stress-buffering for worship service attendance, recreational shopping, and getting a massage. Also among the full 40+ sample, stress-exacerbation was noted for social media use and coping by “overreacting to things.” Factor analysis (employing a polychoric correlation matrix) reduced the 28 individual behaviors into 9 clusters comprised of related behaviors and representing a general coping approach. Looking within the age groups, significant stress-buffering was limited to those age 60 and older for two coping approaches—a “Self-Care and Travel” approach and an Inspirational approach (e.g., praying, attending church, etc.). For both age subgroups there was no coping approach, not even the hedonistic “blowing off steam” approach, that was found to exacerbate the impact of stressful life events on the perception of stress.

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