Depressed Mood in Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Europe and the United States: A Comparative Study Using Anchoring Vignettes

Journal of Aging and Health

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 95-117

  Mojtabai, Ramin ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

anchoring vignettes; depressed mood; reporting heterogeneity; self rating

Indexed keywords

AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84954437478     PISSN: 08982643     EISSN: 15526887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0898264315585506     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Angelini V., Cavapozzi D., Paccagnella O., (2012). Cross-country differentials in work disability reporting among older Europeans. Social Indicators Research, 105, 211-226.
2. Bago d'Uva T., Lindeboom M., O'Donnell O., van Doorslaer E., (2011). Slipping anchor? Testing the vignettes approach to identification and correction of reporting heterogeneity. Journal of Human Resources, 46, 875-906.
3. Bago d'Uva T., O'Donnell O., van Doorslaer E., (2008). Differential health reporting by education level and its impact on the measurement of health inequalities among older Europeans. International Journal of Epidemiology, 37, 1375-1383.
4. Bago d'Uva T., van Doorslaer E., Lindeboom M., O'Donnell O., (2008). Does reporting heterogeneity bias the measurement of health disparities? Health Economics, 17, 351-375.
5. Banks J., Breeze E., Lessof C., Nazroo J., (2008). Living in the 21st century: Older people in England. London, England: Institute for Fiscal Studies.
6. Blumner K. H., Marcus S. C., (2009). Changing perceptions of depression: Ten-year trends from the general social survey. Psychiatric Services, 60, 306-312.
7. Borsch-Supan A., Brandt M., Hunkler C., Kneip T., Korbmacher J., Malter F.,. Zuber S., (2013). Data Resource Profile: The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). International Journal of Epidemiology, 42, 992-1001.
8. Bromet E., Andrade L. H., Hwang I., Sampson N. A., Alonso J., de Girolamo G.,. Kessler R. C., (2011). Cross-national epidemiology of DSM-IV major depressive episode. BMC Medicine, 9, Article 90.
9. Castro-Costa E., Dewey M., Stewart R., Banerjee S., Huppert F., Mendonca-Lima C.,. Ritchie K., (2007). Prevalence of depressive symptoms and syndromes in later life in ten European countries the SHARE study. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 191, 393-401.
10. Coyne J., Marcus S., (2006). Health disparities in care for depression possibly obscured by the clinical significance criterion. American Journal of Psychiatry, 163, 1577-1579.
11. Datta Gupta N., Kristensen N., Pozzoli D., (2010). External validation of the use of vignettes in cross-country health studies. Economic Modelling, 27, 854-865.
12. Demyttenaere K., Bruffaerts R., Posada-Villa J., Gasquet I., Kovess V., Lepine J. P.,. Chatterji S., (2004). Prevalence, severity, and unmet need for treatment of mental disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys. Journal of American Medical Association, 291, 2581-2590.
13. Dowd J. B., Todd M., (2011). Does self-reported health bias the measurement of health inequalities in US adults? Evidence using anchoring vignettes from the Health and Retirement Study. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences, 66, 478-489.
14. Evans-Lacko S., Brohan E., Mojtabai R., Thornicroft G., (2012). Association between public views of mental illness and self-stigma among individuals with mental illness in 14 European countries. Psychological Medicine, 42, 1741-1752.
15. Guindon G. E., Boyle M. H., (2012). Using anchoring vignettes to assess the comparability of self-rated feelings of sadness, lowness or depression in France and Vietnam. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 21, 29-40.
16. Hirve S., Verdes E., Lele P., Juvekar S., Blomstedt Y., Tollman S.,. Ng N., (2014). Evaluating reporting heterogeneity in self-rated health among adults aged 50 years and above in India: An anchoring vignettes analytic approach. Journal of Aging and Health, 26, 1015-1031.
17. Hsee C. K., Tang J. N., (2007). Sun and water: On a modulus-based measurement of happiness. Emotion, 7, 213-218.
18. Jorm A. F., Nakane Y., Christensen H., Yoshioka K., Griffiths K. M., Wata Y., (2005). Public beliefs about treatment and outcome of mental disorders: A comparison of Australia and Japan. BMC Medicine, 3 (1), Article 12.
19. Jorm A. F., Ryan S. M., (2014). Cross-national and historical differences in subjective well-being. International Journal of Epidemiology, 43, 330-340.
20. Jurges H., (2007). True health vs. response styles: Exploring cross-country differences in self-reported health. Health Economics, 16, 163-178.
21. Juster F. T., Suzman R., (1995). An overview of the Health and Retirement Study. Journal of Human Resources, 30, S7-S56.
22. Kapteyn A., Smith J. P., Van Soest A., (2007). Vignettes and self-reports of work disability in the United States and the Netherlands. The American Economic Review, 97, 461-473.
23. King G., Murray C. J., Salomon J. A., Tandon A., (2004). Enhancing the validity and cross-cultural comparability of measurement in survey research. American Political Science Review, 98, 191-207.
24. Kok R., Avendano M., Bago d'Uva T., Mackenbach J., (2012). Can reporting heterogeneity explain differences in depressive symptoms across Europe? Social Indicators Research, 105, 191-210.
25. Kristensen N., Johansson E., (2008). New evidence on cross-country differences in job satisfaction using anchoring vignettes. Labour Economics, 15, 96-117.
26. Ladin K., (2008). Risk of late-life depression across 10 European Union countries: Deconstructing the education effect. Journal of Aging and Health, 20, 653-670.
27. Lauber C., Nordt C., Falcato L., Rössler W., (2003). Do people recognise mental illness? European Archives of Psychiatry & Clinical Neuroscience, 253, 248-251.
28. Leboyer M., Bellivier F., Nosten-Bertrand M., Jouvent R., Pauls D., Mallet J., (1998). Psychiatric genetics: Search for phenotypes. Trends in Neurosciences, 21, 102-105.
29. Lee-Winn A., Mendelson T., Mojtabai R., (2014). Racial/ethnic disparities in binge eating: Disorder prevalence, symptom presentation, and help-seeking among Asian Americans and non-Latino Whites. American Journal of Public Health, 104, 1263-1265.
30. Mojtabai R., (2009). Mental illness stigma and willingness to seek mental health care in the European Union. Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, 45, 705-712.
31. Mojtabai R., Olfson M., (2004). Major depression in community-dwelling middle-aged and older adults: Prevalence and 2- and 4-year follow-up symptoms. Psychological Medicine, 34, 623-634.
32. Mojtabai R., Olfson M., (2006). Treatment seeking for depression in Canada and the United States. Psychiatric Services, 57, 631-639.
33. Paccagnella O., (2011). Anchoring vignettes with sample selection due to non-response. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 174, 665-687.
34. Pescosolido B. A., Martin J. K., Long J. S., Medina T. R., Phelan J. C., Link B. G., (2010). "A disease like any other?" A decade of change in public reactions to schizophrenia, depression, and alcohol dependence. American Journal of Psychiatry, 167, 1321-1330.
35. Pizzagalli D. A., Jahn A. L., O'Shea J. P., (2005). Toward an objective characterization of an anhedonic phenotype: A signal-detection approach. Biological Psychiatry, 57, 319-327.
36. Rabe-Hesketh S., Skrondal A., (2002). Estimating CHOPIT models in GLLAMM: Political efficacy example from King et al. (2002). London, England: Institute of Psychiatry, King's College.
37. Salomon J. A., Tandon A., Murray C. J., (2004). Comparability of self rated health: Cross sectional multi-country survey using anchoring vignettes. British Medical Journal, 328, 258-261.
38. Schomerus G., Evans-Lacko S., Rusch N., Mojtabai R., Angermeyer M. C., Thornicroft G., (2014). Collective levels of stigma and national suicide rates in 25 European countries. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 24, 166-171.
39. United Nations Edicational Scientific, and Cultural Organization (1997). International standard classification of education. Paris, France: UNESCO.
40. Vôková H., Hullegie P., (2011). Is the anchoring vignette method sensitive to the domain and choice of the vignette? Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 174, 597-620.
41. Williams R., (2006). Generalized ordered logit/partial proportional odds models for ordinal dependent variables. Stata Journal, 6, 58-82.
42. Zivin K., Llewellyn D. J., Lang I. A., Vijan S., Kabeto M. U., Miller E. M., Langa K. M., (2010). Depression among older adults in the United States and England. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry: Official Journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, 18, 1036-1044.