Correlation between psychological resilience and self-neglect of community empty-nest elderly: the mediating effect of depression
10.3760/cma.j.cn115682-20210604-02421
- VernacularTitle:社区空巢老人心理弹性与自我忽视的关系：抑郁的中介效应
- Author:
Na WANG
1
;
Mingjing FU
;
Yaru ZHU
;
Yinuo WANG
;
Heqian JI
;
Aimin WANG
Author Information
1. 青岛大学护理学院，青岛 266071
- Keywords:
Aged;
Empty nest;
Community;
Depression;
Psychological resilience;
Self-neglect
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2022;28(8):1041-1045
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:To explore the correlation between psychological resilience, self-neglect and depression among community empty-nest elderly people, and to analyze the mediating role of depression between psychological resilience and self-neglect.Methods:This study was a cross-sectional study. From July to October 2020, a stratified multi-stage sampling was used to select 560 community empty-nest elderly people from 6 community health service centers in Qingdao as the research object. The survey was carried out using the General Information Questionnaire, the Chinese version of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) , the simplified version of the Geriatric Depression Scale, and the Geriatric Self-neglect Scale. Pearson correlation was used to analyze the correlation between variables. The structural equation model was constructed using AMOS 24.0. A total of 560 questionnaires were distributed, and 549 valid questionnaires were recovered, with the valid recovery rate of 98.04%.Results:Among 549 empty-nest elderly people, the total score of Chinese version of CD-RISC was (64.30±14.57) , and the average score of the Geriatric Self-neglect Scale was (3.72±2.67) . There were 174 elderly people (31.70%) with depressive symptoms. The total score and the scores of each dimension of the Chinese version of the CD-RISC in the community empty-nest elderly people were negatively correlated with the total score of the simplified version of the Geriatric Depression Scale ( P<0.01) . Except for the dimension of safety self-neglect, the scores of other dimensions and the total score of the Geriatric Self-neglect Scale were negatively correlated with the total score and the scores of each dimension of the Chinese version of the CD-RISC ( P<0.01) , and were positively correlated with the total score of the simplified version of the Geriatric Depression Scale ( P<0.01) . Depression played a mediating role between the psychological resilience and self-neglect of empty-nest elderly in the community, and the mediating effect accounted for 53.85% of the total effect. Conclusions:Psychological resilience of community empty-nest elderly can directly affect self-neglect, and can also indirectly affect self-neglect through depression. Attention should be paid to the improvement of the psychological resilience of the empty-nest elderly in the community, to reduce the occurrence of self-neglect, and to promote their healthy aging.
