Department of Social Work and Social Policy, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China.
Sau Po Centre on Ageing, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Jul 14;17(14):5085. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17145085.
The present study examines the association between cognitive social capital and structural social capital and aging-in-place among older adults living in rural Northeastern Chinese communities. Data were derived from a survey conducted in Dongliao County, Jilin Province, China, in late 2019. A quota sampling approach was used to recruit 458 respondents aged 60 years and older. Structural equation modeling was applied to test the proposed model. The results show that the measurement models of cognitive social capital and structural social capital were established in rural Chinese communities. Structural social capital was found to have a higher effect on aging in place than cognitive social capital (structural social capital: β = 0.241, < 0.001; cognitive social capital: β = 0.118, < 0.05). The findings highlight the crucial role both cognitive and structural social capital play in affecting the preference for aging in place among older rural Chinese adults. Policy and intervention implications are discussed.
本研究考察了认知社会资本和结构社会资本与中国东北农村社区老年人就地养老之间的关系。数据来自于 2019 年末在中国吉林省东辽县进行的一项调查。采用配额抽样方法招募了 458 名 60 岁及以上的受访者。应用结构方程模型检验了所提出的模型。结果表明，在农村中国社区中建立了认知社会资本和结构社会资本的测量模型。结构社会资本对就地养老的影响大于认知社会资本（结构社会资本：β=0.241，<0.001；认知社会资本：β=0.118，<0.05）。研究结果强调了认知和结构社会资本在影响中国农村老年人就地养老偏好方面的重要作用。讨论了政策和干预措施的意义。
