School of Education, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
Institute of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
Int Psychogeriatr. 2022 Aug;34(8):715-724. doi: 10.1017/S1041610221001162. Epub 2021 Oct 1.
Depression is prevalent among older persons, which seriously threatens their life satisfaction. This study aimed to explore the internal mechanisms by which depression influences life satisfaction among the elderly, as well as the mediating and moderating effects of ostracism and economic income, respectively, in a sample of rural older adults across China.
This was a cross-sectional survey conducted as part of the project "Thousands of People and Hundreds of Villages (2019)."
Participants were rural older adults from 31 provincial-level administrative units across China.
The sample composed of 1,754 participants aged 60 years and over.
Depression was assessed with the depression subscale of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales, life satisfaction with the Satisfaction with Life Scale, ostracism with the Ostracism Experience Scale (OES), and economic income and other control variables with related demographic scales. Moderation and mediation analyses were performed using the regression-based approach as conducted by Hayes ().
Depression negatively predicted life satisfaction among the elderly. Ostracism played a partially mediating role between depression and life satisfaction. Economic income moderated the effect of depression and ostracism on life satisfaction: High economic income weakened the negative effect of depression on life satisfaction and enhanced the negative effect of ostracism on life satisfaction.
Improving depressed elderly people's interpersonal relationships and financial support could improve their life satisfaction.
抑郁在老年人中很普遍，严重威胁着他们的生活满意度。本研究旨在探讨抑郁影响老年人生活满意度的内在机制，以及分别在来自中国 31 个省级行政区的农村老年人样本中，排斥和经济收入的中介和调节作用。
这是作为“千人百村（2019）”项目的一部分进行的横断面调查。
参与者来自中国 31 个省级行政区的农村老年人。
样本由 1754 名 60 岁及以上的参与者组成。
抑郁用抑郁焦虑压力量表的抑郁分量表评估，生活满意度用生活满意度量表评估，排斥用排斥体验量表（OES）评估，经济收入和其他控制变量用相关人口统计学量表评估。使用 Hayes() 提出的基于回归的方法进行调节和中介分析。
抑郁对老年人的生活满意度有负面影响。排斥在抑郁和生活满意度之间起部分中介作用。经济收入调节了抑郁和排斥对生活满意度的影响：高经济收入减弱了抑郁对生活满意度的负面影响，增强了排斥对生活满意度的负面影响。
改善抑郁老年人的人际关系和经济支持可以提高他们的生活满意度。
