Against a macro backdrop of accelerating population aging,the mental health and sleep quality of China’s elderly have become subjects of interest because these fac-tors are both closely linked to seniors’quality of ...Against a macro backdrop of accelerating population aging,the mental health and sleep quality of China’s elderly have become subjects of interest because these fac-tors are both closely linked to seniors’quality of life.Based on multi-period track-ing data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey(CLHLS),this study uses a fixed-effects model to examine the correlation between the sleep quality and mental health of China’s elderly and found that:(1)the elderly in China gener-ally had good sleep quality and mental health;(2)better sleep quality has a posi-tive effect on the mental health of the elderly,while better mental health also posi-tively boosts sleep quality of the elderly;and(3)there may be a causal relationship between the sleep quality and mental health of the elderly.展开更多
基金funded by the National Strategic Research on the Active Response to Population Ageing(20ZDA32)a major project planned by Beijing Municipal Social Science Foundation.
文摘Against a macro backdrop of accelerating population aging,the mental health and sleep quality of China’s elderly have become subjects of interest because these fac-tors are both closely linked to seniors’quality of life.Based on multi-period track-ing data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey(CLHLS),this study uses a fixed-effects model to examine the correlation between the sleep quality and mental health of China’s elderly and found that:(1)the elderly in China gener-ally had good sleep quality and mental health;(2)better sleep quality has a posi-tive effect on the mental health of the elderly,while better mental health also posi-tively boosts sleep quality of the elderly;and(3)there may be a causal relationship between the sleep quality and mental health of the elderly.
