社区服务对教育亏损老年群体心理健康的影响研究——兼论社会参与的中介作用

A Study on the Effect of Community Service on the Mental Health of the Elderly Population with Educational Loss—On the Mediating Role of Social Participation

梳理既往研究发现,文化程度的差异致使老年人心理健康状况明显分化。社区养老服务、社会参与对老年人心理健康干预效果明显,但针对教育亏损老年群体研究较少。因此本文运用结构方程模型和Bootstrap法并基于CLHLS2018年数据,探索社会参与在社区服务和教育亏损老年群体心理健康之间的中介效应。可得出主要研究结论如下:第一,社区服务直接影响心理健康,二者正相关;第二,社会参与直接影响心理健康,二者也呈正相关关系;第三,社区服务不仅能直接影响心理健康,而且能通过社会参与间接影响心理健康,即社会参与在社区服务和心理健康之间发挥部分中介作用,社会参与和社区服务均对心理健康产生重要影响,提升社区服务质量是提升社会参与和改善心理健康的重要途径。

Combing through previous studies has found that differences in cultural attainment have led to significant differentiation of the mental health status of the elderly. Community old-age care services and social participation have obvious effects on the mental health intervention of the elderly, but there are fewer studies on the elderly groups with educational losses. Therefore, this paper uses the structural equation model and the Bootstrap method, based on CLHLS2018 data, to explore the mediating effect of social participation between community service and mental health of the elderly population at the expense of education. The main findings can be drawn as follows: first, community services directly affect mental health, the two are positively correlated;second, social participation directly affects mental health, the two are also positively correlated;third, community services can not only directly affect mental health, but also indi-rectly affect mental health through social participation, that is, social participation plays a part of the mediating role between community services and mental health, and both social participa-tion and community services have an important impact on mental health. Improving the quality of community services is an important way to enhance social participation and improve mental health.