COVID-19 infection, resilience, and depressive symptoms: the protective role of family functioning for aging Chinese adults in Hong Kong.

COVID-19 infection, resilience, and depressive symptoms: the protective role of family functioning for aging Chinese adults in Hong Kong.

Publication date: Jan 01, 2025

Older adults are at an elevated risk of experiencing long COVID, with post-COVID-19 depressive symptoms being prevalent. However, the protective factors against this remain understudied. This study examined (a) the role of resilience in the association between COVID-19 infection and depressive symptoms in aging adults; (b) the moderating role of family functioning in the relationships between COVID-19 and resilience and between resilience and depressive symptoms; and (c) potential gender differences in the moderation. Data were drawn from the first wave of the Panel Study of Active Ageing and Society, a representative survey of Hong Kong adults aged 50 or above. Mediation and moderated mediation analyses were conducted. Approximately 35% of the participants had tested positive for COVID-19. Resilience significantly mediated the association between COVID-19 infection and post-COVID-19 depressive symptoms (p 

Concepts Keywords
Aging Aged
Chinese Aged, 80 and over
Depressive Aging
Relationships COVID-19
Depression
Depressive symptoms
East Asian People
family functioning
Family Relations
Female
Hong Kong
Humans
long-COVID
Male
Middle Aged
post-COVID-19
Protective Factors
resilience
Resilience, Psychological
SARS-CoV-2
Sex Factors

Semantics

Type Source Name
disease MESH COVID-19
disease MESH infection
disease MESH depressive symptoms
disease IDO role
disease MESH long COVID

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