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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 11 Empty nest elderly in rural depression and social support coping styles of Study: Peng Fang Xie Liqin Zhang Jingping coke leaves Bangkok Nana [Abstract] Objective To explore the rural empty nest elderly depression and social support and the relationship between coping styles and the factors on the role of depression. Methods of Hunan 459 empty-nesters for the study, using the Geriatric Depression Scale, social support questionnaire and coping style scale, their depressive symptoms, social support and coping style assessment. Results occurrence of depression and social support, positive coping was positively correlated with negative coping was significantly negatively related to negative coping on depression have a more direct effects. Conclusion empty-nesters a higher incidence of depression, from multi-channel, multi-faceted prevention of the occurrence of depression and intervention. [Keywords] rural empty nesters; depression; social support; coping style With the aging of our population and on the “three rural” issue attention, the growing elderly population in rural areas people pay attention, now more than 60% of the older population distribution in rural areas, rural elderly population has more than 085 million (1). The empty-nesters in the special groups as the elderly, the mental health and health care issue is the health of elderly population in rural areas the most important issue. “empty nesters” both to experience the transformation of personal life, but also through the transformation of the family cycle; the same time , as the body began to aging, the individual’s organizational structure and brain function changes, the system’s functional activities decreased significantly, which all contributed to the “empty nesters” have many psychological problems and psychological disorders such as anxiety, depression, loneliness, old age dementia, the most common is depression (2). This paper aims to explore the empty nest