代际关系与老年心理健康研究进展

Research Progress on Intergenerational Relationship and Mental Health of the Elderly

我国进入老龄化社会以来,老龄化程度日益加深,为了有效应对人口老龄化,相关部门提出健康老龄化理念这一重要举措,营造有利于老年健康的社会支持和生活环境,以提高老年人健康水平。在日常的生活过程中人际交往是获得社会支持的重要途经,这些互动交际过程影响着个体心理健康,其中代际关系是人际交往的重要组成部分。通过对代际关系理论、代际关系的测量、代际关系与心理健康研究的系统梳理,详细阐述国内外对老年群体代际关系的研究进展,不仅有利于深刻认识代际关系在老年心理健康中的作用,也为开展代际关系与老年人心理健康研究提供理论依据。

Since China entered the aging society,the aging degree is increasingly deepened.In order to effectively cope with the aging population,relevant departments put forward the concept of healthy aging as an important mea-sure to create social support and living environment conducive to the health of the elderly,so as to improve the health level of the elderly.In daily life,interpersonal communication is an important way to obtain social support.These interactive communication processes affect individual mental health,among which intergenerational relationship is an important part of interpersonal communication.The intergenerational relationship refers to the relationship between the elderly and their children.In this paper,through a survey of inter-generational relations theory,intergenerational relations,intergenerational relations and mental health research system,both at home and abroad are introduced in detail,the research progress of inter-generational relations to the elderly group is not only beneficial to deeply understanding the role of intergenerational relationship in elderly mental health,also for intergenerational relationship with the elderly mental health research to provide certain theoretical basis.