ArticleInnovation in aging2020
Special Issue: Race and Mental Health Among Older Adults: Do Depressive Symptoms Shape Blacks' Perceptions of Stress Over Time?
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- Validating the stress and adversity inventory for adults (Adult STRAIN) among urban middle-aged and older African Americans.Journal of health psychology · 2026Article
- Environmental, Sociocultural, Behavioral, and Biological Factors Associated with Cognitive Decline, Alzheimer's Disease, and Other Types of Dementia in Black Americans.Current epidemiology reports · 2023Article
- The Interactive Effects of Education and Social Support on Blood Pressure in African Americans.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesPrevious studies have linked stress to multiple negative mental health outcomes, including depression. This established stress-depression association is typically examined in one direction and cross-sectionally. This study examined the bidirectional relationships between depressive symptoms and changes in perceived stress over time in Blacks. RESEARCH DESIGN AND
methodsThe present study uses a community-dwelling sample of 450 Black adults, aged 51-96 years old, who participated in the Baltimore Study of Black Aging-Patterns of Cognitive Aging. Perceived stress-measured by the Perceived Stress Scale-and depressive symptoms-measured using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale-were both assessed at baseline and follow-up 33 months later. Ordinary least squares regression was used to examine 2 bidirectional longitudinal relationships between (1) stress-depression and (2) depression-stress, and whether these associations are modified by age.
resultsInitial analyses testing the typical stress-depression relationship showed an effect in the expected direction, that is stress leading to more depressive symptoms over time, adjusting for model covariates, but the effect was not statistically significant ( DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: Contrary to previous work, the results suggest that an individual's mental health shapes his/her perception of stressful events and this relationship varies by age group. While the typical finding (stress impacting depression) was not significant, the findings reported here highlight the importance of considering the possible bidirectional nature of the relationships between psychosocial measures of stress and mental health in later life among Blacks.
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