Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2015
Department
Counseling and Human Development
Abstract
Depression and hopelessness predict myocardial infarction (MI), but it is unclear whether depression and hopelessness are independent predictors of MI incidents. Hopelessness, depression, and MI incidence rate 18 years later were measured in 2005 men. Cox regressions were conducted with hopelessness and depression serving as individual predictors of MI. Another Cox model examined whether the two predictors predict MI when adjusting for each other. Depression and hopelessness predicted MI in independent regressions but when adjusting for each other, hopelessness, but not depression, predicted MI incidents. Thus, these results suggest that depression and hopelessness are not independent predictors of MI.
Original Publication Information
Pössel, Patrick, Amanda M. Mitchell, Kimmo Ronkainen, George A. Kaplan, Jussi Kauhanen and Maarit Valtonen. "Do Depressive Symptoms Predict the Incidence of Myocardial Infarction Independent of Hopelessness?" 2015. Journal of Health Psychology 20(1): 60-68.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105313498109
ThinkIR Citation
Pössel, Patrick; Mitchell, Amanda M.; Ronkainen, Kimmo; Kaplan, George A.; Kauhanen, Jussi; and Valtonen, Maarit, "Do depressive symptoms predict the incidence of myocardial infarction independent of hopelessness?" (2015). Faculty Scholarship. 275.
https://ir.library.louisville.edu/faculty/275
DOI
10.1177/1359105313498109
Comments
The final version of this paper has been published in Journal of Health Psychology, 20/1, January/2015 by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © The Authors, 2015. It is available at: http://hpq.sagepub.com/