Key result
Depressive rumination was negatively associated with life satisfaction through perceived burdensomeness, an effect that was attenuated by social support from individuals within the institution.
Why the study?
To examine how depressive rumination associates with life satisfaction among institution-dwelling older adults, including the roles of perceived burdensomeness and institutional social support.
Cross-Sectional (n=194)
Yes
Social support within institutions can buffer the negative impact of depressive rumination on life satisfaction among older adults.
Institutional social support may buffer rumination effects on life satisfaction in older adults; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective trials.
Objectives: We examined how institution-dwelling older adults’ depressive rumination was associated with their life satisfaction by taking perceived burdensomeness as a mediator and social support from individuals within the institution (SSII) as a moderator.Method: A total of 194 older adults from 24 institutions in four provinces of China completed a questionnaire survey.Results: Depressive rumination was negatively associated with life satisfaction, and perceived burdensomeness mediated this association. Moreover, SSII moderated the indirect association between depressive rumination and life satisfaction through perceived burdensomeness. Specifically, depressive rumination had a negative effect on life satisfaction through perceived burdensomeness only for older adults with less SSII.Conclusion: Our study indicated that depressive rumination could damage older adults’ life satisfaction by increasing their perceived burdensomeness. Fortunately, older adults’ perception of social support from individuals within the institution could attenuate this negative effect. This study has implications for designing intervention programs to improve the institution-dwelling older adults’ life satisfaction.
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Zhang et al. (2021) conducted a cross-sectional in Depressive rumination (n=194). Depressive rumination was evaluated on Life satisfaction. Depressive rumination was negatively associated with life satisfaction through perceived burdensomeness, an effect that was attenuated by social support from individuals within the institution.
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