Department of Social Work and Social Policy, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
Department of Social Work, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Res Aging. 2020 Jan;42(1):3-12. doi: 10.1177/0164027519876095. Epub 2019 Sep 22.
The present study aimed to examine the association between community social capital and positive caregiving experiences among adult-children caregivers of disabled older adults in urban China. Data for this study were derived from the 2016 wave of the Longitudinal Study on Family Caregivers for Frail Older Adults Aged 75 or Above in Shanghai. The final analysis featured 440 disabled older adult and adult-children caregiver dyads. Multiple indicators and multiple causes modeling was used to test the proposed model from a structural equation modeling perspective. Provision of support to others was significantly associated with self-affirmation. Citizenship activity was significantly associated with life enrichment. Support of units (i.e., employers) was significantly associated with self-affirmation and life enrichment. The findings support the integration of the stress process model and social capital theory and highlight the important role of community social capital in enhancing the subdimensions of positive caregiving experiences. Policy and intervention implications are discussed.
本研究旨在探讨中国城市中残疾老年人成年子女照顾者的社区社会资本与积极照顾体验之间的关系。本研究的数据来自 2016 年上海“75 岁及以上脆弱老年人家庭照顾者纵向研究”的一个波次。最终分析共纳入 440 对残疾老年人及其成年子女照顾者。采用多指标多原因模型从结构方程模型的角度检验了所提出的模型。向他人提供支持与自我肯定显著相关。公民活动与生活充实度显著相关。单位（即雇主）的支持与自我肯定和生活充实度显著相关。研究结果支持压力过程模型和社会资本理论的整合，并强调了社区社会资本在增强积极照顾体验的各个维度方面的重要作用。讨论了政策和干预措施的意义。
