Gringart Eyal, Becerra Rodrigo, Smith Andrea
School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University, 270 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup 6027, Australia.
School of Psychological Science, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth 6009, Australia.
Geriatrics (Basel). 2025 Aug 25;10(5):114. doi: 10.3390/geriatrics10050114.
The current study aimed to investigate whether habitual rumination, suppression, and perceived stress predict poor mental and physical health as well as well-being in a group of older adults (aged 50 to 80 years) from a non-clinical community sample. The current study comprised a cross-sectional survey design with online self-report measures. It was predicted that higher levels of rumination, suppression, and perceived stress would predict lower levels of general health as well as well-being, and heightened levels of depression and anxiety. Findings from the study indicated that both rumination and perceived stress significantly predicted heightened anxiety, heightened depression, and decreased physical health as well as well-being. These results replicate and extend past research on rumination. However, diverging from past research, suppression was not a significant predictor, or correlate, of stress, anxiety, or of general health and well-being; though, suppression did weakly but significantly predict depression.
本研究旨在调查习惯性沉思、压抑和感知压力是否能预测来自非临床社区样本的一组老年人（年龄在50至80岁之间）的身心健康状况以及幸福感。本研究采用在线自我报告测量的横断面调查设计。研究预测，较高水平的沉思、压抑和感知压力将预示着较低的总体健康水平以及幸福感，以及更高水平的抑郁和焦虑。该研究的结果表明，沉思和感知压力均能显著预测焦虑加剧、抑郁加剧、身体健康状况下降以及幸福感降低。这些结果重复并扩展了以往关于沉思的研究。然而，与以往研究不同的是，压抑并非压力、焦虑或总体健康及幸福感的显著预测因素或相关因素；不过，压抑确实能微弱但显著地预测抑郁。
