Sun Fei, Hilgeman Michelle M, Durkin Daniel W, Allen Rebecca S, Burgio Louis D
School of Social Work, Arizona State University, Glendale, AZ 85306, USA.
Psychol Aging. 2009 Mar;24(1):177-83. doi: 10.1037/a0014760.
The authors examined perceived income inadequacy as a predictor of self-reported depressive symptomatology and anxiety in the original sites of the Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health I project. Perceived income inadequacy, self-reported household income, and control factors (e.g., subjective health) were entered into hierarchical regression analyses predicting psychological distress. Findings suggest that perceived income inadequacy and not household income significantly predicted more self-reported depressive symptomatology and greater self-reported anxiety. This supports previous findings that objective income measures alone are not adequate indicators of socioeconomic status in older adults.
作者在“增强阿尔茨海默病照料者健康资源I项目”的原始研究地点，将感知到的收入不足作为自我报告的抑郁症状和焦虑的预测指标进行了研究。将感知到的收入不足、自我报告的家庭收入以及控制因素（如主观健康状况）纳入分层回归分析，以预测心理困扰。研究结果表明，感知到的收入不足而非家庭收入显著预测了更多的自我报告的抑郁症状和更严重的自我报告的焦虑。这支持了之前的研究结果，即仅客观收入指标不足以作为老年人社会经济地位的指标。
