%0 Journal Article
%T Social Support Network Types and Depressive Symptoms Among Community
%A Seung Hee Lee
%A Young Bum Kim
%J Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health
%@ 1941-2479
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1010539519841287
%X The purposes of this study were to derive empirical types of social support networks in a sample of 1000 community-dwelling, older Koreans 65 years of age or older and examine which types of social support network are associated with a lower risk of depressive symptoms. Depressive symptom was assessed using the Korean version of the Geriatric Depression Scale¨CShort Form. Using K-means cluster analysis, we identified 4 social support network types: friend, family, restricted, and diverse. Multivariate linear regression analysis revealed that diverse and family support networks were protective against depressive symptoms, whereas restricted support networks were least. Encouraging older people to develop a variety of social support networks with family and friends may help prevent depressive symptoms in the community-dwelling elderly. These findings extended prior studies and provided valuable information on how to prevent depressive symptoms of the community-dwelling elderly
%K social support
%K network
%K depression
%K community
%K elderly
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1010539519841287