传统孝文化的变迁:经济支持与老年人生活满意度研究

Transition of Filial Piety Culture:Financial Support and Wellbeing among the Elderly

老年人生活满意度当属中外学者从家庭代际关系入手展开广泛研究的议题之一。为了系统分析中国老年人的生活满意度与代际经济互惠之间的关系,利用"中国老年人健康长寿影响因素调查"2011-2012年数据集建立回归模型作为分析方法。分析结果显示,老年人对子女的持续支持与其生活满意度存在关联。这说明,长期以来学者们在分析中国家庭制度和代际关系时经常使用的"反哺"理论假设有可能过于单一和片面。换言之,中国许多老年人甚至在进入高龄阶段后继续给予下一代经济支持这一现象应该受到研究者的重视。

Wellbeing has been a widely researched topic by Chinese and foreign scholars from the perspective of intergenerational relations. To systematically explore the connections between the sense of wellbeing among Chinese elders and the role of reciprocity in intergenerational relations, the present article draws on the findings generated by a logistic regression model constructed on the basis of the 2011-2012 data of the Chinese Longitudinal Health Longevity Survey. One of the findings we have made is the close association of older people＇s sense of wellbeing with their continuous economic support to their children. This finding shows that the ＂reversal of nurturing＂ theory popular in discussions about intergenerational relations of the Chinese family system may well be a one-dimensional framework of interpretation. Alternatively phrased, the social fact that many older people even in their advanced years continue to give economic support to their children should be given proper recognition in our analysis.