Department of Social Work and Social Policy, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
Sau Po Centre on Ageing, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Sci Rep. 2022 Apr 23;12(1):6686. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-10742-7.
This study examined the mediator role of social capital on the association between perceived neighborhood environment and life satisfaction among older adults in urban China, and further tested the moderating effect of gender in the above paths (i.e., from neighborhood environment to life satisfaction; from neighborhood environment to social capital; from social capital to life satisfaction). We used quota sampling approach to recruit 472 respondents aged 60 years old or older in Shanghai in 2020. From the perspective of structural equation modeling, multiple group analysis was conducted to examine the proposed hypotheses. The measurement model of social capital was well established in urban Chinese community contexts. Based on the whole sample, the results of the mediation model showed that social capital played a mediation role in the association between neighborhood environment and life satisfaction. Furthermore, the results of multiple group analysis showed that the association between neighborhood environment and cognitive social capital was only significant among older women. The findings highlight the role of neighborhood environment and social capital in building age-friendly communities.
本研究考察了社会资本在感知邻里环境与城市中老年居民生活满意度之间的中介作用，并进一步检验了性别在上述路径中的调节作用（即邻里环境到生活满意度；邻里环境到社会资本；社会资本到生活满意度）。我们采用配额抽样的方法于 2020 年在上海招募了 472 名 60 岁及以上的受访者。从结构方程模型的角度出发，进行了多群组分析以检验所提出的假设。社会资本的测量模型在城市中国社区背景下得到了很好的建立。基于全样本，中介模型的结果表明，社会资本在邻里环境与生活满意度之间的关联中起到了中介作用。此外，多群组分析的结果表明，邻里环境与认知社会资本之间的关联仅在老年女性中具有显著性。研究结果强调了邻里环境和社会资本在建设老年友好型社区中的作用。
