Resilience, stressful life events, and depressive symptomatology among older Chinese adults

Abstract

The finding of significant interaction supported the role of resilience in moderating the adverse effect of SLEs in terms of depressive symptoms among older Chinese adults.

Stressful Life Events: Association with Physical and Mental Health Conditions among Older Adults in Bhutan

“…These findings were consistent with the previous studies where strong association was shown between severe stressful events with poor physical functioning, higher risk of disabilities, and poor mental health [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. Likewise, as observed in the past study [18,19], a significant positive relationship was also found between cumulative SLEs and psychological distress in this study. Evidence also suggests psychological correlates lead to increase of physical health complaints [19].…”

Association between depression and resilience in older adults: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

“…Most articles (four out of seven) included in this systematic review were composed of community‐dwelling participants, not pertaining to any specific clinical condition (Hardy et al ., ; Mehta et al ., ; Li et al ., ; Lim et al ., ). Only the studies carried out by Vahia et al .…”

“…The seven articles included for analysis were conducted in three different countries: the USA (three) (Mehta et al ., ; Vahia et al ., ; Resnick et al ., ), China (Li et al ., ; Lim et al ., ), and Belgium (Fossion et al ., ). All seven studies were cross‐sectional.…”

“…(), and Lim et al . () did not apply because the samples were drawn from previously performed longitudinal studies and the authors cited reference articles. However, the studies by Li et al .…”

Resilience in nurses in terms of perceived social support, job satisfaction and certain variables

“…Resilience is the ability to recover from stressful life events and generally refers to the process of successful adaptation (Lim et al, ). It plays an important role in increasing personal strength against stressful events, coping with difficulty, developing effective coping strategies and adapting to situations involving change (Lim et al, ; Shatté, Perlman, Smith, & Lynch, ). Caldeira and Timmins () have characterized resilience as being fundamental across the lifespan and closely related to health and wellbeing.…”