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标题：Effects of Social Support and Self-Esteem on Depressive Symptoms in Japanese Middle-Aged and Elderly People
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作者：Yasuyuki Fukukawa ; Satomi Tsuboi ; Naoakira Niino 等
期刊名称：Journal of Epidemiology
印刷版ISSN：0917-5040
电子版ISSN：1349-9092
出版年度：2000
卷号：10
期号：1sup
页码：63-69
DOI：10.2188/jea.10.1sup_63
出版社：Japan Epidemiological Association
摘要：We examined the relationship among social support, self-esteem, and depression. The subjects were 1, 116 Japanese community-dwelling adults aged between 40-79, who were the first wave participants of the National Institute for Longevity Sciences-Longitudinal Study of Aging (NILS-LSA). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed on the Rosenberg's self-esteem scale that supported the superiority of the bi-dimensional structure of the scale marked by self-confidence and self-deprecation subscales. The subsequent causal analyses, using structural equation modeling, demonstrated that social support reduced depressed affect through an increase in self-confidence and a decrease in self-deprecation. By contrast, social support did not show a direct effect on depressed affect. The findings suggest the importance of esteem-improving elements of social support in reducing depressive symptoms. J Epidemiol , 2000 ; 10 : S63-S69.
关键词：social support;self-esteem;depression;structural equation modeling