Stressful life events interacting with cognitive/personality styles to predict late-onset major depression.

Full Abstract

The current work evaluated the interaction of life stressors with cognitive/personality styles in predicting late-onset depression in 42 elderly outpatients with DSM-IV unipolar Major Depression and 42 nondepressed controls. Control subjects were matched to cases on age, sex, race, and years of education. As suggested by Beck's cognitive theory of depression, a multivariate model indicated that specific stressful-event types interacted with specific cognitive/personality styles in strongly predicting depression onset, adjusting for the positive associations of medical illness and reduced physical functioning with depression.

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Author information

Author/s: Mazure, Carolyn M (CM); Maciejewski, Paul K (PK); Jacobs, Selby C (SC); Bruce, Martha L (ML);

Affiliation: Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.

Grants: P60-AG104 (Agency:United States NIA) ; R01 MH52905 (Agency:United States NIMH)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

Journal: The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (Am J Geriatr Psychiatry), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2002 May-Jun; vol 10 (issue 3) : pp 297-304

Dates: Created 2002/05/07; Completed 2002/10/10; Revised 2007/11/14;

PMID: 11994217, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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Age of Onset
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Cognition - physiology
Connecticut
Depressive Disorder - physiopathology; psychology
Female

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