对累积逆境对老年人身心健康影响的跨文化纵向研究。
A cross-cultural longitudinal examination of the effect of cumulative adversity on the mental and physical health of older adults.
作者信息
Palgi Yuval, Shrira Amit
机构信息
Department of Gerontology.
Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences.
出版信息
Psychol Trauma. 2016 Mar;8(2):172-179. doi: 10.1037/tra0000056. Epub 2015 May 11.
Self-oriented adversity refers to traumatic events that primarily inflict the self, whereas other-oriented adversity refers to events that affect the self by primarily targeting others. The present study aimed to examine whether cultural background moderates the effects of self-oriented and other-oriented adversity on mental and physical health of older adults. Using longitudinal data from the Israeli component of the Survey of Health and Retirement, we focused on 370 Jews and 239 Arabs who reported their exposure to various adversities across the life span, and completed questionnaires regarding mental and physical health. Results showed that the effect of self-oriented adversity on health did not differ among Jews and Arabs. However, other-oriented adversity showed a stronger effect on Arabs' mental and physical health than on Jews' health. Our findings suggest that the accumulation of adverse events that affect the self by primarily targeting others may have a stronger impact in collectivist cultures than in individualist cultures.
自我导向的逆境是指主要对自身造成伤害的创伤性事件，而他人导向的逆境是指主要针对他人从而影响自身的事件。本研究旨在探讨文化背景是否会调节自我导向和他人导向的逆境对老年人身心健康的影响。利用来自健康与退休调查以色列部分的纵向数据，我们重点关注了370名犹太人和239名阿拉伯人，他们报告了自己在一生中所经历的各种逆境，并完成了关于身心健康的问卷调查。结果表明，自我导向的逆境对健康的影响在犹太人和阿拉伯人之间没有差异。然而，他人导向的逆境对阿拉伯人的身心健康影响比对犹太人的健康影响更强。我们的研究结果表明，主要针对他人从而影响自身的不良事件的积累，在集体主义文化中可能比在个人主义文化中产生更强的影响。
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