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This study examined whether the association varied across social contexts within the country, Japan, in terms of varying degree of urbanization and differential time periods.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Data were obtained from a nine-wave nationwide longitudinal survey with a probability sample of Japanese adults aged 60\u00a0years and over. Respondents belonged to one of the three periods (around 1990, 2000, and 2015)\u00a0according to the year they commenced participation. As many as 4,655 individuals from 575 municipalities provided 9,016 observation sets of two consecutive waves (t \u2212 1 and t). Within a framework of the Hierarchical Generalized Linear Model, depressive symptoms at t were predicted based on changes in living arrangements from t \u2212 1 to t and their cross-level interactions with gender, level of urbanization, and time period, controlling for various covariates at t \u2212\u00a01.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>In general, older adults living alone continuously as well as those who started living alone between the waves showed more depressive symptoms than those coresiding with someone continuously. However, this tendency was more prominent among rural residents than their urban counterparts, especially for men. 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