Journal
JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 14, Pages 1869-1879Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1359105316639437
Keywords
anxiety; Beck Anxiety Inventory; China; community care; depression; Geriatric Depression Scale; risk factors
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71473117, 71173099]
- China's Changjiang Scholars Programs and Dengfeng Talents Plan of Nanjing University
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This study investigated depression and anxiety among Chinese elderly earthquake survivors, addressing relevant correlations. We sampled one earthquake-prone city, utilising the Geriatric Depression Scale and Beck Anxiety Inventory. In addition, explorative factor analysis and structural equation model methods were used. Results indicated elderly earthquake survivors exhibited symptoms of moderate depression and anxiety; depression and anxiety are highly positively correlated. The overlap between these two psychological problems may be due to subjective fear and motoric dimensions; subjective fear and motoric dimensions of Beck Anxiety Inventory are more strongly related to Geriatric Depression Scale domains. The two scales exhibit high reliability and validity.
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