Depressive symptoms across the retirement transition in men and women: associations with emotion regulation, adjustment difficulties and work centrality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Retirement is a major life event and factors driving depression in the retirement transition might differ in men and women. The aim was to prospectively study depressive symptoms across the retirement transition in men and women and to test associations with emotion regulation strategies (suppression and reappraisal), adjustment difficulties, and work centrality.

Methods

The sample included 527 individuals from the population-based Health, Aging and Retirement Transitions in Sweden (HEARTS) study who were working at baseline and retired during one of the following four annual measurement waves. Participants contributed with a total of 2635 observations across five measurement waves. Depressive symptoms were measured with the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depres

SUBMITTER: Hed S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11292945 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature