Cheng Cheng
Department of Sociology, Office of Population Research, Princeton University, 219 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Soc Sci Med. 2017 Apr;179:201-209. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.03.007. Epub 2017 Mar 6.
Past research has shown that anticipated support, the belief that someone will provide support if needed, benefits health. Few studies considered whether the relationship between anticipated support and health depends on the source of such support. This project addresses this gap and examines how anticipated support from children is related to older parents' health and whether such support can be replaced by anticipated support from other relatives and friends. Ordered logit and negative binomial regression models with lagged health outcomes were estimated using nationally representative data from the 2010 and 2012 Health and Retirement Study and the 2011 and 2013 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. Results suggest that anticipated support from children is related to older parents' better self-rated health and fewer depressive symptoms in both countries. In the U.S. where filial norms are relatively weak, anticipated support from others is no less important for health than anticipated support from children. However, in China where filial norms are relatively strong, parents anticipating support only from others are no different in health from those anticipating support from no one.
过去的研究表明，预期支持，即相信在需要时有人会提供支持，对健康有益。很少有研究考虑预期支持与健康之间的关系是否取决于这种支持的来源。本项目填补了这一空白，并研究了来自子女的预期支持与老年父母健康之间的关系，以及这种支持是否可以被来自其他亲属和朋友的预期支持所取代。使用2010年和2012年健康与退休研究以及2011年和2013年中国健康与退休纵向研究的全国代表性数据，估计了具有滞后健康结果的有序logit模型和负二项回归模型。结果表明，在这两个国家，来自子女的预期支持都与老年父母更好的自评健康和更少的抑郁症状有关。在美国，孝道规范相对较弱，来自他人的预期支持对健康的重要性不亚于来自子女的预期支持。然而，在中国，孝道规范相对较强，仅预期从他人那里获得支持的父母在健康方面与预期无人提供支持的父母没有差别。
