School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; China Institute for Urban Governance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; Institute of Healthy Yangtze River Delta, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
J Affect Disord. 2020 Dec 1;277:612-619. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.08.084. Epub 2020 Sep 1.
The mental health has become an important public health issue in China. This study aimed to use panel data to explore how personal relative deprivation affects mental health among older adults in China.
The panel data of this study was obtained from the 2011 and 2014 waves of Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS). Furthermore, we used a panel data model to investigate the effect of personal relative deprivation on mental health among the older adults.
Results from the panel data model show that greater feelings of relative economic deprivation were associated with lower level of cognitive function (coefficient = -0.3706, p < 0.01). Relative economic status adversely affected the psychological health (coefficient = -0.3636, p < 0.001). Social participation, physical exercise, and smoking accounted for 3.13%, 1.43%, and 0.19% of the effect of relative economic status on cognitive function, respectively. The most important channel involving the effect of relative economic status on psychological health is social participation (1.62%), followed by physical exercise (0.80%) and smoking (0.14%).
Our findings suggest that personal relative deprivation has negative effects on cognitive function and psychological health. Furthermore, the regression results also indicate that the negative health effect of personal relative deprivation shows significant age, gender, and urban-rural disparities. Moreover, there is evidence that social participation is an important transmission channel involving the effect of personal relative deprivation on mental health. Reducing personal relative deprivation can improve the mental health of the older adults.
心理健康已成为中国重要的公共卫生问题。本研究旨在使用面板数据探讨个人相对剥夺感如何影响中国老年人的心理健康。
本研究的面板数据来自中国老年健康纵向研究（CLHLS）2011 年和 2014 年的两个波次。此外，我们使用面板数据模型来研究老年人的个人相对剥夺感对心理健康的影响。
面板数据模型的结果表明，相对经济剥夺感越强烈，认知功能水平越低（系数=-0.3706，p<0.01）。相对经济地位对心理健康有不利影响（系数=-0.3636，p<0.001）。社会参与、体育锻炼和吸烟分别占相对经济地位对认知功能影响的 3.13%、1.43%和 0.19%。相对经济地位对心理健康影响的最重要途径是社会参与（1.62%），其次是体育锻炼（0.80%）和吸烟（0.14%）。
我们的研究结果表明，个人相对剥夺感对认知功能和心理健康有负面影响。此外，回归结果还表明，个人相对剥夺感的负面健康影响在年龄、性别和城乡方面存在显著差异。此外，有证据表明，社会参与是个人相对剥夺感对心理健康影响的一个重要传播途径。减少个人相对剥夺感可以改善老年人的心理健康。
