Psychological capital in community elderly intermediary effect between the quality of life and depression

VernacularTitle:心理资本在社区老年人生命质量与抑郁情绪间的中介效应
Author: Xiao FENG ; Kun LIU ; Lina GUO ; Ruixue ZHANG ; Yongchuang LIU
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Aged; Quality of life; Depression; Psychological capital; Structural equation model
From: Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2016;32(18):1374-1378
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To explore the community elderly depression effect on quality of life and provide the basis for the elderly mental health intervention. Methods Adopting stratified random sampling method, using the SF-12,CES-D and psychological capital questiennaire of elder to survey among 500 community elderly people and established the structural equation model. Results The age, degree of education, income situation, depression and the old psychological capital of the community elderly can be used to predict the quality of life, can explain 88.6%variance of life quality(P<0.05);depression on quality of life has a direct effect of-0.21(P < 0.05); depression through psychological capital indirect effect on quality of life for-0.64(P<0.05). Conclusions The elderly depression through psychological capital intermediary effect on the quality of life.