Lu Nan, Jiang Nan, Lou Vivian W Q, Zeng Yue, Liu Meng
1 Department of Social Work, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
2 School of Social Work, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Res Aging. 2018 Sep;40(8):740-761. doi: 10.1177/0164027517739032. Epub 2018 Jan 23.
The present study aimed to test the moderating effect of gender on the relationship between social capital and life satisfaction among older adults in urban China. A quota sampling method was used to select 456 older adults aged 60 and older from 16 local communities in Suzhou city in 2015. Hierarchical multiple regression was employed to test the proposed models. The associations between family social capital and life satisfaction were higher among older men than women. Trust and helping others were stronger predictors of older women's life satisfaction than their male counterparts. Citizenship activities affected life satisfaction among older men only. The findings highlight the important role of social capital in sustaining and/or improving life satisfaction among both older women and men. Policy and intervention implications are discussed.
本研究旨在检验性别在中国城市老年人社会资本与生活满意度关系中的调节作用。2015年，采用配额抽样法从苏州市16个社区选取了456名60岁及以上的老年人。采用分层多元回归对所提出的模型进行检验。老年男性的家庭社会资本与生活满意度之间的关联高于女性。与老年男性相比，信任和帮助他人对老年女性生活满意度的预测作用更强。公民活动仅影响老年男性的生活满意度。研究结果凸显了社会资本在维持和/或提高老年女性和男性生活满意度方面的重要作用。并讨论了政策和干预的意义。
