Pei Yaolin, Cong Zhen, Silverstein Merril, Li Shuzhuo, Wu Bei
Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York University, NY, USA.
School of Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington, Lubbock, USA.
Res Aging. 2022 Jan;44(1):65-72. doi: 10.1177/0164027520981726. Epub 2020 Dec 29.
The aim of this study was to examine how the factors suggested by the Terror Management Theory are associated with death anxiety among rural Chinese older adults.
Data were derived from a longitudinal survey of older adults aged 60 and above, had at least one living child, and were living in rural areas of Anhui Province. The working sample included 1,362 older adults. Two-level random effects models were used.
Children's financial support was negatively related to death anxiety, whereas emotional closeness with children was positively related to death anxiety. Older women reported more death anxiety than older men. Functional limitations were positively associated with death anxiety, and the widowed reported less death anxiety than the married. We did not find a significant association between religious belief and death anxiety.
The study highlights the importance of culture in shaping death anxiety among older adults in rural China.
本研究旨在探讨恐怖管理理论所提出的因素如何与中国农村老年人的死亡焦虑相关联。
数据来自对60岁及以上、至少有一个在世子女且居住在安徽省农村地区的老年人的纵向调查。有效样本包括1362名老年人。使用了二级随机效应模型。
子女的经济支持与死亡焦虑呈负相关，而与子女的情感亲密程度与死亡焦虑呈正相关。老年女性比老年男性报告的死亡焦虑更多。功能受限与死亡焦虑呈正相关，丧偶者报告的死亡焦虑比已婚者少。我们未发现宗教信仰与死亡焦虑之间存在显著关联。
该研究凸显了文化在中国农村老年人死亡焦虑形成中的重要性。
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