Krause Neal
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 1420 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029, USA.
J Aging Health. 2007 Oct;19(5):792-812. doi: 10.1177/0898264307304390.
The purpose of this study is to see if a strong sense of meaning in life helps older adults cope more effectively with the effects of lifetime trauma.
The data were obtained from a nationwide longitudinal survey of older adults (N = 1,093). Questions were asked about traumatic events arising at any point in an individual's life and depressive symptoms.
The findings suggest that meaning tends to offset the deleterious impact of traumatic life events on depressive symptoms. However, these effects were observed only when the cross-sectional data were examined. In contrast, statistically significant stress-buffering effects were not present when the impact of trauma and meaning on change in depressive symptoms over time was evaluated.
The findings from this study provide a basis for devising interventions to help older people cope more effectively with the effects of traumatic events that have arisen in their lives.
本研究旨在探讨强烈的生活意义感是否有助于老年人更有效地应对毕生创伤的影响。
数据来自一项针对老年人的全国性纵向调查（N = 1,093）。询问了有关个人生活中任何时候发生的创伤事件和抑郁症状的问题。
研究结果表明，生活意义感往往能够抵消创伤性生活事件对抑郁症状的有害影响。然而，这些影响仅在检查横断面数据时才被观察到。相比之下，在评估创伤和生活意义感对抑郁症状随时间变化的影响时，未发现具有统计学意义的压力缓冲效应。
本研究结果为设计干预措施提供了依据，以帮助老年人更有效地应对其生活中出现的创伤事件的影响。
