社会支持对老年人心理健康的影响研究

The Influence of Social Support on the Mental Health of the Elderly

通过采用2014年"中国家庭发展追踪调查"数据,运用定序因变量的logistic回归模型分析方法,研究社会支持对老年人心理健康的影响。不仅考察了正式社会支持和非正式社会支持的不同影响,而且扩展了社会支持的内涵,分析了社会支持的质和量的影响差别。研究发现:女性老年人、高龄老年人、患有慢性病的老人心理健康状况较差;"多子未必多福",子女数量增多并没有对老年人心理健康水平起到促进作用;老年人获得子女经济支持并不能对其心理健康起到显著的促进作用,但来自于公共财政、集体补贴的收入对老年人的心理健康有促进作用;亲人的精神支持具有积极影响;核心家庭成员提供的日常生活照料,以及老人在生病时能获得家人的照顾会起到显著的促进作用;此外,老年人所拥有的医疗保险类型也会对其心理健康状况有显著影响。

Based on the data. “Family D ynamics of China”in 2014,and using nalysis, tliis paper investigates the influence of social support on the mental healtli of tlie elderly in Chi-na. It studies the influence of formal and informal social support, and different quantity of social support. It founds that the female elderly, the oldest - old,and the elderly witii chro-nic have less mental healtii. T h e quantity of children has non positive influence on the mental health ofthe elderly. It finds that receiving financial support, daily care from adult children has a on the mental health of the elderly. T h e sorts of medical insurance of t!ie elderly also play a significantrole on their mental health.