Klaveren, Joséphine van (2021) THE INFLUENCE OF FAMILY TIES ON DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS SEEN BY ELDERLY: A COMPARISON BETWEEN SWEDEN, DENMARK, ITALY AND SPAIN. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
Due to the global increase of the share of people aged 60 and over, the amount of common mental disorders, like depression, are expected to increase as depression is one of the four most common health problems in old age. Social relationships are found as contributors to decrease the odds for elderly on experiencing depressive symptoms. One of these social relationships are family ties. However, having strong family ties is not self-evident. In southern European countries, family ties are generally assessed as strong, but in northern European countries as relatively weak. Nevertheless, depression rates in southern European countries are commonly greater than depression rates in northern European countries. In this thesis, it is researched what the influence of family ties exactly is for elderly on suffering from depression or depressive symptoms. The results of two northern European countries Sweden and Denmark are indirectly compared with the results of two southern European countries, Spain and Italy. The data of a cohort of people aged 60 and over from the easySHARE data set are used in a binary logistic regression analysis, to find the relation between different sorts of family ties and the odds of suffering from depressive symptoms, controlled for age, socioeconomic status and gender. It is found that living together with a spouse/partner is of great importance in reducing the odds of suffering from depressive symptoms. However, not a substantial difference is found between these countries in the importance of the different family ties. For further research, it is needed to dive deeper into the emotional relationships between relatives, as this seems to be a better indicator to measure family ties. Thereby, it is advised to analyze other predictors for depression in later life, so that the core cause of depression by elderly can be found.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | Vogt, T.C. and Bister, L. |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jun 2021 14:03 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jun 2021 14:03 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3481 |
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