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KMID : 1023720200750020189
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Journal of Welfare for the Aged
2020 Volume.75 No. 2 p.189 ~ p.215
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Longitudinal Analyses on Contagion of Depression of Married Elderly Couples in Korea
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Heo Sun-Young
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Abstract
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The present study aims to explore the dyadic longitudinal interplay between married elderly couples’ depression. The analytic model in this study is based on the longitudinal Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM), using AutoRegressive Cross-Lagged Model (ARCL). The present study uses data from four annual waves of the Korean Welfare Panel Study (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018) for analyses. The final sample of this study comprises a total of 1,383 married couples over 60 years of age in 2015. Structural equation modeling is employed to identify longitudinal relationships between couples’ depression. The results show that the depression level of one spouse had a significant long-term effect on depression of the other spouse. Specifically, husbands’ higher level of depression significantly predicted the wives’ higher level of depression one year later, while controlling for autoregressive effect of their depression level of previous year, and vice versa. This study provides important empirical evidence for contagion of depression in interpersonal context.
The findings of this study emphasize the need for interventions in depression using individual and couple-centered approaches.
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KEYWORD
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Married Elderly Couples, Contagion of Depression, Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM), AutoRegressive Cross-Lagged Model (ARCL)
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