Wu Zheng, Penning Margaret J, Zeng Weihong, Li Shuzhuo, Chappell Neena L
Department of Sociology, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Center for Aging and Health Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi, China.
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2016 Nov;71(6):1108-1119. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbu187. Epub 2015 Jan 23.
China's economic reforms have led to millions of citizens being relocated to support infrastructure development, reduce poverty, and address ecological, disaster-related and other concerns. This study expands on previous research on the implications of relocation in China by examining the impact of rural elders' relocation on the perceived availability of emotional, instrumental, and financial support.
Data were drawn from the Ankang Study of Aging and Health conducted with a representative sample of 1,062 rural residents aged 60 and over living in Ankang, China. Two-stage probit and least squares regression models assessed the impact of relocation on familial and nonfamilial emotional, instrumental, and financial support.
Relocation was negatively associated with the number of social support resources that older adults perceived as being available. Although this was the case with regard to both familial and nonfamilial support, it was particularly evident with regard to family support and, within families, with regard to instrumental rather than financial or emotional support.
Relocation has negative implications for the number of social support resources perceived to be available by older adults in rural China. China will need to come to terms with how to provide for the instrumental support needs of an aging society.
中国的经济改革致使数百万民众搬迁，以支持基础设施建设、减少贫困并应对生态、灾害及其他相关问题。本研究通过考察农村老年人搬迁对情感支持、工具性支持和经济支持可获得性的认知影响，扩展了此前关于中国搬迁影响的研究。
数据取自安康老年与健康研究，该研究对中国安康地区1062名60岁及以上农村居民的代表性样本进行了调查。两阶段概率单位和最小二乘回归模型评估了搬迁对家庭和非家庭情感支持、工具性支持及经济支持的影响。
搬迁与老年人感知到的可用社会支持资源数量呈负相关。虽然家庭支持和非家庭支持均是如此，但在家庭支持方面尤为明显，在家庭内部，工具性支持而非经济或情感支持的情况尤其如此。
搬迁对中国农村老年人感知到的可用社会支持资源数量具有负面影响。中国需要应对如何满足老龄化社会工具性支持需求的问题。
