Social Support Network Types and Depressive Symptoms Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults in South Korea.

Abstract:

:The purposes of this study were to derive empirical types of social support networks in a sample of 1000 community-dwelling, older Koreans 65 years of age or older and examine which types of social support network are associated with a lower risk of depressive symptoms. Depressive symptom was assessed using the Korean version of the Geriatric Depression Scale-Short Form. Using K-means cluster analysis, we identified 4 social support network types: friend, family, restricted, and diverse. Multivariate linear regression analysis revealed that diverse and family support networks were protective against depressive symptoms, whereas restricted support networks were least. Encouraging older people to develop a variety of social support networks with family and friends may help prevent depressive symptoms in the community-dwelling elderly. These findings extended prior studies and provided valuable information on how to prevent depressive symptoms of the community-dwelling elderly.

authors

Kim YB,Lee SH

doi

10.1177/1010539519841287

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-05-01 00:00:00

pages

367-375

issue

4

eissn

1010-5395

issn

1941-2479

journal_volume

31

pub_type

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