Living Alone and Depressive Symptoms Among Older Japanese: Do Urbanization and Time Period Matter?

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Previous research has suggested cross-national differences in the association between living alone and well-being among older adults. This study examined whether the association varied across social contexts within the country, Japan, in terms of varying degree of urbanization and differential time periods.

Methods

Data were obtained from a nine-wave nationwide longitudinal survey with a probability sample of Japanese adults aged 60 years and over. Respondents belonged to one of the three periods (around 1990, 2000, and 2015) according to the year they commenced participation. As many as 4,655 individuals from 575 municipalities provided 9,016 observation sets of two consecutive waves (t - 1 and t). Within a framework of the Hierarchical Generalized Linear Model,

SUBMITTER: Kobayashi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10413811 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature