DEPRESSION AND FACTORS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING IN THE ELDERLY.
Contributors: University Of Illinois At Chicago, Health Sciences Center.
Published: 1994
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Gerontology.; Psychology, Clinical.
Description: Depression and factors of psychological well-being in the elderly were examined in this descriptive correlational study. Face-to-face interviews were conducted by the investigator with a sample of fifty community and fifty institutional elderly.

The findings revealed that the community elderly had higher self-esteem, were more positive in affect of reminiscence, and had less depression than the institutionalized elderly. There were inverse relationships for depression with self-esteem, affect of reminiscence, ego integrity, and social support in the community elderly, but not between depression and social support in the institutional elderly. Positive relationships existed between self-esteem and ego integrity in the community group and for self-esteem with affect of reminiscence, and ego integrity in the institutional group. In both groups, positive relationships existed between affect of reminiscence and ego integrity. It appears that depression continues to be problematic among the elderly, especially the institutionalized elderly.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-01, Section: B, page: 0177.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER, 1994.

School code: 0806.