Associations of various perceived-stress situations with depressive symptoms in ≥50-year old Taiwanese men and women: Results from the Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Aging

Highlights • Health, job, finance, and family-related stress are unequally associated with depressive symptoms in Taiwanese men and women aged ≥50 years. • Long-term high job stress and increased stress over family members’ problems increase occurrences of men’s depressive symptoms. • Increased/long-term financial stress and relationship-strain with family members increase occurrences of women’s depressive symptoms. • Long-term high health stress has more impacts on men’s depressive symptoms than women’s; the reverse is for family members’ relationship strain.