Perceived Everyday Age Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms:The Moderating Effect of Social Environment

Lifetime racial/ethnic discrimination and ambulatory blood pressure: The moderating effect of age.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the relationships of lifetime discrimination to ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) varied as a function of age in a sample of Black and Latino(a) adults ages 19 - 65. METHOD Participants were 607 Black (n = 318) and Latino(a) (n = 289) adults (49% female) who completed the Perceived Ethnic Discrimination Questionnaire-Community Version (PEDQ-CV), which assesses lif...

Perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms among immigrant-origin adolescents.

Although discrimination has been found to contribute to psychological distress among immigrant populations, there are few studies that have examined the relationship between racial and ethnic discrimination in the school setting among foreign-born immigrant and U.S.-born immigrant-origin adolescents. This study examined the relationship between perceived discrimination by adults and peers in th...

Perceived age discrimination in older adults

OBJECTIVES to examine perceived age discrimination in a large representative sample of older adults in England. METHODS this cross-sectional study of over 7,500 individuals used data from the fifth wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), a longitudinal cohort study of men and women aged 52 years and older in England. Wave 5 asked respondents about the frequency of five everyd...

Adolescent romance and depressive symptoms: the moderating effects of positive coping and perceived friendship competence.

Youths' ability to positively cope with negative emotions and their self-perceived friendship competence were examined as potential moderators of links between multiple aspects of romantic relationships and residualized increases in depressive symptoms from late adolescence into early adulthood. Participants included 184 teens (46% male; 42% non-White) assessed at ages 15 to 19 and 21, as well ...

Age discrimination in health and social care