scholarly journals MENTAL HEALTH 3 LONGITUDINAL ASSOCIATION OF AGE IDENTITY AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS: EVIDENCE FROM THE SAMPLE SURVEY ON AGED POPULATION IN URBAN/RURAL CHINA

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (Suppl_2) ◽  
pp. 525-525 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Age Identity ◽  
Aged Population ◽  
Longitudinal Association ◽  
Urban Rural

The Longitudinal Association Between Age Identity and Physical Functioning Among Urban Chinese Older Adults

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 486-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kun Liang
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Physical Functioning ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Protective Function ◽  
Chinese Older Adults ◽  
Age Identity ◽  
Longitudinal Association

The aim of this study is to determine the longitudinal association between age identity and physical functioning among urban Chinese older adults. We conducted secondary data analyses based on a sample of older adults aged 60 years and above who participated in both the 2006 and the 2010 Sample Survey on Aged Population in Urban/Rural China, which consisted of 5,788 urban community-dwelling older adults. A single-item measure of age identity was used to distinguish between old and youthful age identities (or the feeling of being old or not). Ordinary least regression analyses revealed that youthful age identity was significantly associated with better physical functioning, even when controlling for baseline sociodemographic and health variables as well as baseline physical functioning. This study provides new cross-cultural and longitudinal evidence of the protective function of youthful age identity in later life.

scholarly journals SEPARATED KIN: RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION AND MENTAL HEALTH TRAJECTORIES OF OLDER ADULTS LEFT BEHIND IN RURAL CHINA

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S880-S880
Author(s):  
Zhiyong Lin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Rate Of Increase ◽  
The Impact

Abstract As the processes of urbanization and globalization have intensified across the world, a burgeoning literature has documented the impact of emigration on the health of family members left behind in emigrant communities. Although the association between children’s migration and parental well-being is well documented, few have examined the health implications of children’s migration in the milieu of multiple children and further differentiated between children’s short-term and long-term migration. Therefore, I argue that it is not the geographic locality of a single child but the composition of all children’s location that matters. I further suggest that the impact of children’s migration on parental wellbeing is conditioned on the duration of children’s migration. Using a six waves longitudinal data (2001-2015) collected in rural China, this paper compares mental health (measured as depressive symptoms) trajectories of old adults (aged 60 and older) across different compositions of local and migrant children over a 14-year span. Results from growth curve models show that parents having more migrant children relative to local children experience a more rapid increase in depressive symptoms. In addition, older adults who have their most children migrate away for three or more waves of data have experienced the steepest rate of increase in depressive symptoms. These findings provide new evidence to support the life course processes of mental health disparities among older adults from the perspective of intergenerational proximity.

scholarly journals Longitudinal association between smartphone ownership and depression among schoolchildren under COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masaki Adachi ◽  
Michio Takahashi ◽  
Hiroki Shinkawa ◽  
Hiroyuki Mori ◽  
Tomoko Nishimura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Factor ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
School Children ◽  
Screen Time ◽  
The Other ◽  
Time Points ◽  
Longitudinal Association ◽  
Mental Health Effects

AbstractUnder the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns regarding prolonged screen time and mental health effects in children have increased. We examined the association of depression with smartphone ownership in school children at four time points: September 2019, July 2020, December 2020, and March 2021. The analysis revealed an interaction between group and time, indicating that depressive symptoms among smartphone owners were significantly more severe than in the other group. These results were clearer for fourth-year students, pointing that smartphone possession at younger ages may be a risk factor for mental health in the new lifestyle caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Variations in depressive affects due to differences in gender and residence

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-55
Author(s):  
Sultana Zakiya Huq
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Factorial Design ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Statistical Technique ◽  
Depressive Affect ◽  
Urban Rural

The study explores the phenomenon of depression as a function of gender and residence. A total of 40 respondents constituted the sample. The age of the respondents ranged from 40-65 years. A 2×2 factorial design representing two levels of gender (Male/Female) and two levels of residential background (Urban/Rural) was used. Two hypotheses were formulated. The first hypothesis states that female would exhibit more depressive symptoms than the males. The second hypothesis states that respondents with rural residential background would exhibit more depressive symptoms than the respondents with urban residential background. The statistical technique of analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used for the analysis of data. The results provided empirical support to the second hypothesis. It was found that respondents with rural residential background expressed significantly more depressive symptoms than the respondents with urban residential background. Key words: Depressive affect; self-esteem; adolescence; brain chemistry; mental health. DOI: 10.3329/jles.v2i2.7498 J. Life Earth Sci., Vol. 2(2) 51-55, 2007

scholarly journals Longitudinal Association between Sport Participation and Depressive Symptoms after a Two-Year Follow-Up in Mid-Adolescence

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (20) ◽  
pp. 7469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Gómez-Baya ◽  
Luis Calmeiro ◽  
Tânia Gaspar ◽  
Adilson Marques ◽  
Nuno Loureiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Education Data ◽  
Longitudinal Association ◽  
Assessment Time ◽  
And Gender

Sport participation has been advocated as a strategy to improve adolescents’ mental health. However, how these variables evolve during the adolescent years is uncertain. The objective of the present work was to examine the longitudinal associations of sports participation and depressive symptoms in adolescents. Participants were 525 Spanish adolescents (50.3% boys), aged between 12 and 15 years old (M = 13.45, SD = 0.69). They were enrolled in 18 secondary schools located in Andalusia (Spain) in the first two academic years of Compulsory Secondary Education. Data were collected in three waves, separated by one year, by administering self-report measures of depressive symptoms and sport participation. Repeated measures analyses of variance were conducted to examine the change in depressive symptoms and sport participation, and a latent growth curve model was tested to examine the change in depressive symptoms controlling initial sport participation and gender. At each wave, more frequent sport participation was related to lower depressive symptoms. Two years after the first assessment, adolescents became more depressed but not more active. Less active adolescents had more depressive symptoms in each assessment time. At all moments of assessment, girls were less active and reported more depressive symptoms. Moreover, girls had a higher increase in depressive symptoms than boys. Promotion of physical activity (PA) as a mental health strategy needs to consider gender differences as boys and girls have different patterns of presentation of depressive symptoms throughout adolescence.

scholarly journals Urban-Rural Mental Health Disparities in China: The Neighborhood Effects

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 96-96
Author(s):  
Chengming Han
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Context Effects ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Mental Health Disparities ◽  
Rural Residents ◽  
Urban Rural

Abstract This paper intended to explore the neighborhood effects on mental health disparities of urban and rural residents in Mainland China. Data were drawn from the CHARLS baseline (2011). The sample included 450 neighborhoods, with 3907 urban residents and 13,391 rural residents older than 45 years old. Multilevel model was used to determine the neighborhoods’ effects and individual effects on depressive symptom scores (CES-D). Independent variables included social activities, health status, and demographic characteristics. The result reveals three context effects of urban-rural neighborhoods: first, people living in urban communities reported better physical health, higher educational levels, and lower depressive symptoms than their rural counterparts. Second, people living in urban communities are more engaged in social activities than people living in rural villages. Third, the urban neighborhoods present more variations in depressive symptoms and social activities than the rural neighborhoods.

scholarly journals Live like mosquitoes: Hukou, rural–urban disparity, and depression

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Fu ◽  
Cary Wu ◽  
Heqing Liu ◽  
Zhilei Shi ◽  
Jiaxin Gu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Negative Binomial Regression ◽  
Protective Effects ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Fundamental Causes ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Fundamental Causes Of Disease

Although there has been a longstanding curiosity about the socio-political consequences of China’s remarkable urban–rural divide, we have yet to understand the divide’s possible influence on mental health. Using data from the 2016 wave of the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS), we find that depressive symptoms of both rural–urban migrants and rural residents are significantly higher than those of urban residents. Consistent with the fundamental-causes-of-disease and stress-exposure perspectives, results from zero-inflated negative binomial regression suggest that such differences in depressive symptoms can be attributed to socioeconomic status and proximate stressors such as unemployment, living alone, and the unaffordability of medical services. In particular, the rural–urban difference in depressive symptoms is explained away by educational attainment. A further investigation using spline Poisson regression suggests that the protective effects of the period of middle school, which vary substantially across demographic groups, are especially relevant to the rural–urban disparity in depression. We argue that hukou is a fundamental cause of disease in China and mental health is an important yet understudied area where China’s salient urban–rural inequality strikes.

scholarly journals Public Pension, Labor Force Participation, and Depressive Symptoms across Gender among Older Adults in Rural China: A Moderated Mediation Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 3193
Author(s):  
Xin Gao ◽  
Tieying Feng
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Mediation Analysis ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Moderated Mediation ◽  
Public Pension ◽  
Pension Scheme

Due to insufficient financial support and unceasing work, the rural elderly in China experience a range of mental disorders, and the most common one is depression. This study aims to investigate the association between public pension, labor force participation (LFP), and depressive symptoms for older men and women in rural China. A moderated mediation analysis is conducted using data in the 2015 wave extracted from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), a continuous national social survey. A total of 2709 available surveys were obtained in our analysis. Using PROCESS, results revealed that the income from China’s New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) was directly negatively related to depressive symptoms. However, LFP did not mediate the link between pension income (PI) and depressive symptoms in the total study population. The results of moderated mediation estimates indicated that gender significantly moderated the relationship between LFP and depressive symptoms. Specifically, for older women, the indirect effect of PI on depressive symptoms via LFP was significant, but not for the opposite sex. In order to improve the mental health of older adults in rural China, the policy makers and mental health therapists need to pay attention to the aforementioned factors.

scholarly journals TRADITIONAL NETWORK ON MENTAL HEALTH: SUPPORT FROM CHILDREN AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS FOR OLDER ADULTS IN RURAL CHINA

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S511-S512
Author(s):  
Lei Chen ◽  
Fernando Torres-Gil
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Rural China ◽  
National Level ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Older Parents ◽  
Number Of Children

Abstract In rural China, support from children is the traditional network for older adults. Their mental health problem is poorly understood and remains unsolved. The study aims to explore the relationships between older adults’ depressive symptoms and characteristics of support from children under the current social-structural conditions in rural China. The study is informed by the intergenerational solidarity theory and the theoretical framework of social relationships and their influence on health. The quantitative study is based on the recent wave of Harmonized China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (Harmonized CHARLS) in 2015, which is a high-quality national-level dataset. The study applies conditional process analysis to do the data analysis. The key findings include: the number of children has a negative association with older adults’ depressive symptoms (c= -.2390, p=.0002<0.05); the number of children influenced older adults’ depressive symptoms indirectly through financial support from children (If children do not live with older parents, ab=-.0141, CI= -.393 to -.0038; If children live with older parents, ab=-.0153, CI= -.369 to -.0056;). However, both theses direct and indirect relationships do not depend on the co-residence situation between older adults and their children. The controlling variables include age, gender, and self-rated health. Under China’s current transition period of population policy, this study provides policy implications regards to the characteristics of children support and their influence on older adults’ mental health, especially in rural China. This study also tests the two theories to some extent under the Chinese context, which were initially developed in Western countries.

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