Living with stress: Neighborhood disadvantage, social capital, and depression

This study's objective was to determine the effects of personal and neighborhood stressors on depressive symptomology for community dwelling adults aged 65 and over. The psychosocial resource model was employed as social capital is hypothesized to be a resource and play a mediating role in the...

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Main Author Lillis, John Porter
Format Dissertation
LanguageEnglish
Published ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 01.01.2009
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Gerontology
Sociology
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Summary:This study's objective was to determine the effects of personal and neighborhood stressors on depressive symptomology for community dwelling adults aged 65 and over. The psychosocial resource model was employed as social capital is hypothesized to be a resource and play a mediating role in the effect of both types of stressors on depressive symptomology. Individual level data utilized came from the UAB Study of Aging (N = 919) and the neighborhood level data came from the 2000 Decennial Census. Logistic regression analysis determined that neighborhood stressors had no direct or indirect effect on depressive symptomology. This analysis did show that personal stressors were found to have a positive and significant direct effect on depressive symptomology. Social capital did not play a mediation role as hypothesized.
ISBN:1109164548
9781109164541