社会联系与失能老年人心理弹性的关系——社会支持的中介作用

The Relationship between Social Connection and Resilience of Disabled Elderly—The Mediating Role of Social Support

目的:探讨社会联系对失能老人心理弹性的影响,分析社会支持在两者间的中介作用,为提高失能老人心理弹性提供参考依据。方法:采用方便抽样的方法在四川省4个城市的医疗机构中抽取621位失能老人进行问卷调查。运用SPSS 22.0软件进行t检验、方差分析和Pearson相关分析,采用多重线性回归模型分析社会支持对社会联系和失能老人心理弹性的中介作用,并用Bootstrap进行进一步验证。结果:四川省失能老人心理弹性得分为(23.97 ± 7.17),处于较低水平,并在性别、户籍、文化程度、职业、收入上存在显著差异(P ˂ 0.05)。社会支持在社会联系和失能老人心理弹性中起着完全中介的作用。结论:社会联系为失能老人提供了更多的实际或感知社会支持,并拥有更多的心理和物质资源,以提高其心理弹性水平。

Purposes: To explore the impact of social connection on the resilience of disabled elderly, analyze the mediating role of social support between them, and provide a reference basis for improving the resilience of the disabled elderly. Methods: The method of convenient sampling is used to draw 621 disabled elderly in medical institutions in 4 cities in Sichuan Province for a questionnaire survey. SPSS 22.0 software is used to perform t-test, variance analysis, and Pearson-related analysis, multiple linear regression models are used to analyze the mediating effect of social support on social connection and resilience of the elderly, and Bootstrap is used to further verify. Results: The resilience score of the disabled elderly in Sichuan Province is (23.97 ± 7.17), which is at a lower level, and has a significant difference in gender, household registration, cultural level, occupation, and income (P < 0.05). Social support plays a complete intermediary in resilience and social connection. Conclusions: Social connection provides more practical or perceived social support for the disabled elderly, and has more psychological and material resources to improve its resilience level.