Janke Megan C, Nimrod Galit, Kleiber Douglas A
Department of Recreation, Sports, and Tourism, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.
J Women Aging. 2008;20(1-2):83-98. doi: 10.1300/J074v20n01_07.
There is relatively little evidence available about how leisure involvement changes with the death of a spouse and even less about how leisure activity is associated with the health and well-being of widows during this transition. Using data from the Americans Changing Lives (ACL) dataset, this study of 154 widows investigated change in leisure involvement during the transition to widowhood and examined the relationship between leisure activity reduction and widows' well-being. Results indicated a majority of widows reduced their involvement in leisure activity. Path models revealed that depressive symptoms and recovery from spousal loss were predictors of activity reduction, providing more support for the causal relationship of well-being influencing activity involvement than for activity influencing well-being.
关于休闲参与度如何随着配偶的死亡而变化，现有证据相对较少；而关于在这一转变过程中休闲活动如何与寡妇的健康和幸福相关联，证据则更少。本研究利用“美国人生活变化”（ACL）数据集的数据，对154名寡妇进行了调查，研究了向寡妇身份转变过程中休闲参与度的变化，并考察了休闲活动减少与寡妇幸福感之间的关系。结果表明，大多数寡妇减少了她们对休闲活动的参与。路径模型显示，抑郁症状和从配偶离世中恢复过来是活动减少的预测因素，这为幸福感影响活动参与的因果关系提供了更多支持，而非活动影响幸福感的因果关系。
