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Differential cross-lagged relations of frailty predicting later depression in older women versus men

Published inJournal of health psychology, vol. 30, no. 14, p. 4401-4414
Publication date2025-12
First online date2025-04-15
Abstract

This study aimed to investigate autoregressive and lagged associations over 2 years between frailty, depression and quality of life, and to examine sex differences in these longitudinal associations among European men and women aged ≥50 years. The analyses included 10,077 individuals (5589 women) from 12 European countries. Women attested to a higher frailty and depression score and lower quality of life than men. For both sexes, frailty and depression correlated positively cross-sectionally and longitudinally (2 years later), while quality of life correlated negatively with frailty and depression cross-sectionally and longitudinally. With regard to lagged associations, for both men and women, frailty proved to be a predictor of depression 2 years later. In turn, depression did not predict frailty and quality of life 2 years later in women, but it did among men.

Keywords
  • Ageing
  • Depression
  • Frailty
  • Longitudinal data
  • Quality of life
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DE MAIO NASCIMENTO, Marcelo et al. Differential cross-lagged relations of frailty predicting later depression in older women versus men. In: Journal of health psychology, 2025, vol. 30, n° 14, p. 4401–4414. doi: 10.1177/13591053251330798
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