Research Team for Social Participation and Healthy Ageing, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan.
Psychogeriatrics. 2024 Nov;24(6):1275-1281. doi: 10.1111/psyg.13188. Epub 2024 Sep 5.
Previous research found that self-concealment was associated with rumination in younger adults. However, no study had investigated the relationship between self-concealment and rumination in older adults. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between self-concealment and the two subfactors of rumination: brooding and reflection, in older adults.
In this study, we investigated the relationship between self-concealment and rumination in older adults. Considering that rumination has two subfactors: brooding, which reflects the more maladaptive aspects of rumination; and reflection, which reflects the more adaptive aspects of rumination, we separately investigated the relationship between self-concealment and the two subfactors of rumination.
We found that after controlling for other potentially relevant variables and the interrelationship between these two subfactors, self-concealment was associated with brooding, but not with reflection.
Self-concealment was only associated with the maladaptive aspect of rumination (i.e. brooding), and not with the adaptive aspects of rumination (i.e. reflection). These findings have important implications for enhancing the understanding of older adults' mental health, and imply that improving self-concealment could potentially mitigate the maladaptive aspects of rumination, which may offer valuable insights for guiding future psychogeriatrics interventions.
先前的研究发现，自我隐瞒与年轻人的沉思有关。然而，尚无研究调查老年人自我隐瞒与沉思之间的关系。因此，本研究旨在探讨老年人自我隐瞒与沉思的两个子因素（沉思和反思）之间的关系。
在这项研究中，我们调查了老年人自我隐瞒与沉思之间的关系。考虑到沉思有两个子因素：沉思，反映了沉思中更适应不良的方面；和反思，反映了沉思中更适应的方面，我们分别调查了自我隐瞒与沉思的两个子因素之间的关系。
我们发现，在控制了其他可能相关的变量以及这两个子因素之间的相互关系后，自我隐瞒与沉思有关，但与反思无关。
自我隐瞒仅与沉思的适应不良方面（即沉思）有关，而与沉思的适应方面（即反思）无关。这些发现对增强对老年人心理健康的理解具有重要意义，并暗示改善自我隐瞒可能潜在地减轻沉思的适应不良方面，这可能为指导未来的心理老年学干预提供有价值的见解。
