Widowhood and Depression: New Light on Gender Differences, Selection, and Psychological Adjustment
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Widowhood and depression: new light on gender differences, selection, and psychological adjustment.
OBJECTIVES To document short- and long-term trajectories of depressive symptoms following widowhood and to test whether these trajectories vary by gender and anticipatory spousal loss. METHOD Eight waves of prospective panel data from the Health and Retirement Study, over a 14-year period, are used to evaluate gender differences in depressive symptoms following widowhood in late midlife. Shor...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1079-5014,1758-5368
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbt058