Depressive Symptoms and Resilience in Older Wome: Moderating Effect of Social Support

The purpose of this study is to identify the moderation effect of social support on the relations between depressive symptoms and resilience of the elderly women. Subjects are 110 older women who visits leisure facilities for the elderly in Incheon City. The data was collected by the self-reported questionnaires and analyzed with the IBM SPSS version 19.0 for descriptive statistics. Depressive symptoms is negatively correlated with resilience, and social support is positively correlated with resilience as a result of simple correlation analyses. According to the result from hierarchical multiple linear regression analyses to identify the moderation effect of social support between depressive symptoms and resilience, there was not any moderation effect by total social support. But, in the case of the material social support and emotional social support which are sub-scale of social support have significance on the interaction variables. The result from simple slope shows that emotional social support for low level has moderation effect, emotional social support and material social support for medium level has partial moderation effect. Therefore various social support program, such as psychology adaptation counsel program will be necessary to enhance the resilience for older women. And further research needs to be done to refine moderating effect verification of protective factor what enhances resilience.

Author dc:creator

• 윤, 은지

Contributors dc:contributor

• 이, 윤환
• 보건대학원
• 201230027

• 우울
• 적응유연성
• 사회적 지지
• 조절 효과
• 여성 노인
• Depressive Symptoms
• Resilience
• Social Support
• Moderation Effect
• Older Women

Language dc:language

ko

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http://dcoll.ajou.ac.kr:9080/dcollection/jsp/common/DcLoOrgPer.jsp?sItemId=000000016843
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oai:repository.ajou.ac.kr:201003/10830