Exploring the Relationships Between Creativity, Depression, and Successful Aging

Flood, Meredith

doi:10.1300/j016v31n01_04

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“…In all, 45 studies reported that they excluded individuals with cognitive impairment or a diagnosis of dementia, of which 30 were cross-sectional studies (58.8%) [11,12,17,19,24,30,31,32,33,37,58,59,60,62,63,64,65,66,69,72,73,75,76,77,78,88,89,90,91,92] and 15 were longitudinal studies (68.2%) [2,3,4,8,10,18,20,21,25,26,34,45,46,48,49]. Cognitive function was equally assessed in clinical studies (n = 11) and in community-based studies (n = 12).…”

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Depression and Quality of Life in Older Persons: A Review

Sivertsen

Bjørkløf²,

Engedal³

et al. 2015

Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord

9,492

277

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Background: Depression is a prevalent and disabling condition in older persons (≥60 years) that increases the risk of mortality and negatively influences quality of life (QOL). The relationship between depression, or depressive symptoms, and QOL has been increasingly addressed by research in recent years, but a review that can contribute to a better understanding of this relationship in older persons is lacking. Against this background, we undertook a literature review to assess the relationship between depression and QOL in older persons. Summary: Extensive electronic database searches revealed 953 studies. Of these, 74 studies fulfilled our criteria for inclusion, of which 52 were cross-sectional studies and 22 were longitudinal studies. Thirty-five studies were conducted in a clinical setting, while 39 were community-based epidemiological studies. A clear definition of the QOL concept was described in 25 studies, and 24 different assessment instruments were employed to assess QOL. Depressed older persons had poorer global and generic health-related QOL than nondepressed individuals. An increase in depression severity was associated with a poorer global and generic health-related QOL. The associations appeared to be stable over time and independent of how QOL was assessed. Key Messages: This review found a significant association between severity of depression and poorer QOL in older persons, and the association was found to be stable over time, regardless which assessment instruments for QOL were applied. The lack of a definition of the multidimensional and multilevel concept QOL was common, and the large variety of QOL instruments in various studies make a direct comparison between the studies difficult.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Depression and Quality of Life in Older Persons: A Review

Sivertsen

Bjørkløf²,

Engedal³

et al. 2015

Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord

9,492

277

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“…In this study, older adults were found to have engaged in more creative activities than the other age groups. Active engagement in creative activities would likely In fact, had the results been dominated by cohort effects, we might see older people reporting lower CP due to their disadvantaged educational background (Flood, 2006) as a result of wars and poverty in the early years (Cheng, Lum, Lam, & Fung, in press). Thus the agerelated increase in creative personality shown in the present study is less likely due to cohort effect, but more likely attributable to older people's greater engagement in creative activities and other factors mentioned above.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…First, as mentioned above, there was age difference in education, while education has been shown to be moderately correlated with CP, with higher educated people reporting more CP traits (Flood, 2006). In order for age differences in CP and related variables to be accurately assessed, we needed to control for education.…”

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Gains and losses in creative personality as perceived by adults across the life span.

Hui¹,

Yeung²,

Sue-Chan³

et al. 2014

Developmental Psychology

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In this study, we used a life span model to study the subjective perception of creative personality (CP) in emerging, young, middle-aged, and older Hong Kong Chinese adults. We also asked participants to estimate the approximate age by which people develop and lose CP across adulthood. We expected an interesting interplay between internalized age stereotypes and age-related differentiation in beliefs about personality development. Older adults perceived increases in both gains and losses in CP in old age. But they still maintained a similar level of self-perceived CP traits when compared with young participants. Emerging, young, and middle-aged adults were less optimistic about their creativity development into old age. Young adults, in contrast to older adults, believed that gains in CP began and ceased at an earlier age. Positive perceptions of CP in one's aging process may have implications for aging successfully.

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“…Perceived income is also measured, as one of three categories defined by Flood (2006Flood ( , 2008. Health is measured as self-reported perceived health, defined as the participant's subjective assessment of his or her own overall physical and mental health, and as number of common chronic diseases conditions (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2008).…”

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“…The investigator-developed questionnaire also was used to obtain data on perceived income, health, and functional status. Self-reported income was operationalized for older adults as one of three classifications used by Flood, (2006Flood, ( , 2008 (barely enough to get by/ enough to get by/ enough to live in some luxury). A summative index constructed from perceived health (very good/good/fair/poor) and number of chronic diseases (hypertension or high blood pressure/ arthritis/ heart disease/ diabetes/ lasting effects of a stroke/ respiratory disease such chronic bronchitis, asthma, or emphysema/ cancer/other) (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), (CDC, 2008, n.d.) was considered to operationalize health but ultimately perceived health and number of chronic diseases were entered in the analysis as separate variables.…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploring a new theory of successful aging among low-income older adults in an independent and assisted living community.

McCarthy¹

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Exploring the Relationships Between Creativity, Depression, and Successful Aging

Cited by 23 publications

References 40 publications

Depression and Quality of Life in Older Persons: A Review

Depression and Quality of Life in Older Persons: A Review

Gains and losses in creative personality as perceived by adults across the life span.

Exploring a new theory of successful aging among low-income older adults in an independent and assisted living community.

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