Department of Psychology, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Alcorcón, Spain.
Department de Biological and Health Psychology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Aging Ment Health. 2021 Dec;25(12):2330-2336. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2020.1822291. Epub 2020 Sep 23.
Participants were 317 community-dwelling people over 60 years without cognitive or functional limitations. A path model that explores the role of self-perceived burden in the relationship between negative self-perception of aging, perceived control, depressive symptoms and guilt associated with self-perception as a burden was analyzed.
The model presented excellent fit to the data, explaining 41% of the depressive symptomatology and 45% of guilt for perceiving oneself as a burden. Negative self-perceptions of aging, lower sense of control, and a perception of being a burden were significantly associated with depressive symptoms and guilt for perceiving oneself as a burden.
This study documents potential correlates of psychological distress in older adults with no explicit physical or cognitive problems, suggesting paths through which feelings of guilt for perceiving oneself as a burden may be reported by this population.
参与者为 317 名无认知或功能限制的 60 岁以上社区居民。分析了一个路径模型，该模型探讨了自我感知负担在负面老龄化自我认知、感知控制、抑郁症状和因自我认知为负担而产生的内疚感之间的关系中的作用。
该模型与数据拟合度非常好，解释了 41%的抑郁症状和 45%的因自我认知为负担而产生的内疚感。负面的老龄化自我认知、较低的控制感和被视为负担的认知与抑郁症状和因自我认知为负担而产生的内疚感显著相关。
本研究记录了无明显身体或认知问题的老年人群心理困扰的潜在相关因素，表明了这一人群可能会因自我认知为负担而产生内疚感的途径。
