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This study examined the relations between everyday problems, social problem solving, and depression and anxiety in middle-aged and elderly community residents, using a multidimensional measure of social problem-solving ability that assesses positive problem orientation, negative problem orientation, rational problem solving, impulsivity/carelessness style, and avoidance style. While problem-solving deficits were found to be significantly related to depression and anxiety in both age samples, no support was found for a moderator hypothesis which assumes that problem-solving ability interacts with everyday problems to reduce depression and anxiety. On the other hand, support was found in both samples for a mediational model which assumes that problem solving is an intervening variable that accounts to a significant degree for the causal relations between everyday problems and depression and anxiety. Although all five problem-solving dimensions were significantly related to depression and anxiety, negative problem orientation was found to contribute most to the significant mediating effect....
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