Jiayue Xu, Changsheng Ye, Lixin Sun, Xiao Yu, Wenjun Zhao, Chuanyong Le
College of Teacher Education, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
Institute of Elderly Education, Ningbo Open University, Ningbo, China.
Front Psychol. 2022 Jul 14;13:901969. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.901969. eCollection 2022.
Population aging has brought great challenges to many regions throughout the world. Enhancing the sense of participation, access, and well-being of older adults is the goal of China's aging development. This study, taking urban-rural difference as the entry point, examined the difference in subjective well-being between urban and rural older learners. A total of 2,007 older adults learners ( = 2007) aged over 50 years were recruited in Zhejiang, Anhui, and Shandong Provinces in China, including 773 rural older adults and 1,234 urban older adults. This study found that there was a significant positive correlation between senior learning and the subjective well-being of urban and rural older adult learners. Furthermore, there was a significant difference between the subjective well-being of urban and rural older adult learners' and there was also an urban-rural difference between the effects of older adult learning on the subjective well-being. Based on the above findings, this study reveals the mechanism of the impact of older adult learning on subjective well-being of urban and rural older adults and gives relevant suggestions for improving the subjective well-being of urban and rural older learners.
人口老龄化给世界许多地区带来了巨大挑战。增强老年人的参与感、获得感和幸福感是中国老龄事业发展的目标。本研究以城乡差异为切入点，考察了城乡老年学习者主观幸福感的差异。在中国浙江省、安徽省和山东省共招募了2007名50岁以上的老年成人学习者，其中农村老年成人773名，城市老年成人1234名。本研究发现，老年学习与城乡老年成人学习者的主观幸福感之间存在显著正相关。此外，城乡老年成人学习者的主观幸福感存在显著差异，老年学习对主观幸福感的影响也存在城乡差异。基于上述研究结果，本研究揭示了老年学习对城乡老年人主观幸福感的影响机制，并为提高城乡老年学习者的主观幸福感提出了相关建议。
