Advisor(s)
Mark E Lagory
Committee Member(s)
Sheila R Cotten
Akhlaque Haque
Sean-Shong Hwang
Patricia Sawyer
Document Type
Dissertation
Date of Award
2009
Degree Name by School
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) College of Arts and Sciences
Abstract
This study's objective was to determine the effects of personal and neighborhood stressors on depressive symptomology for community dwelling adults aged 65 and over. The psychosocial resource model was employed as social capital is hypothesized to be a resource and play a mediating role in the effect of both types of stressors on depressive symptomology. Individual level data utilized came from the UAB Study of Aging (N = 919) and the neighborhood level data came from the 2000 Decennial Census. Logistic regression analysis determined that neighborhood stressors had no direct or indirect effect on depressive symptomology. This analysis did show that personal stressors were found to have a positive and significant direct effect on depressive symptomology. Social capital did not play a mediation role as hypothesized.
ProQuest Publication Number
ISBN
978-1-109-16454-1
Recommended Citation
Lillis, John Porter, "Living with Stress: Neighborhood Disadvantage, Social Capital, and Depression" (2009). All ETDs from UAB. 229.
https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/etd-collection/229
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