College of Philosophy, Law and Political Science, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China.
College of Professional Studies, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States.
Front Public Health. 2023 Mar 30;11:1095302. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1095302. eCollection 2023.
The perception of good family relationship is an important factor to promote social participation through sports of older adults living alone. This study explores the influence of perceived family relationship on sports sociability and its group differences, and then discusses the mediating effect of self-respect.
Based on the survey data of 2,801 older adults living alone in Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hohhot, and Dalian, the quantitative index of their "activeness in social participation through sports" was constructed. The OLS model, the Ologit model, the instrumental variable method and the mediating effect were used to explore the influence mechanism of perceived family relationships of urban older adults living alone on their sport participation.
The results demonstrate that: (1) Older adults 's activeness in sport participation in China is generally at a low level; (2) perceived family relationships have an impact on activeness in sport participation, i.e. positive family relationships will increase their activeness in sport participation, and there are evident gender differences in this tendency; (3) there are regional differences in the activeness in SPS among the older adults living alone in urban areas, and perceived family relationships in first-tier and second-tier cities have a more significant impact on their activeness in sport participation; (4) the mediating effect analysis shows that perceived family relationships can indirectly promote urban old adults' activeness in sport participation through the reconstruction of their self-respect, and this is more pronounced in women.
Therefore, the important role of families cannot be ignored in promoting sport participation of the older adults.
良好家庭关系的认知是促进独居老年人通过体育活动参与社会的一个重要因素。本研究探讨了感知家庭关系对体育社交性的影响及其群体差异，然后讨论了自尊的中介作用。
基于对成都、上海、广州、呼和浩特和大连 2801 名独居老年人的调查数据，构建了他们“通过体育活动积极参与社会”的定量指标。采用 OLS 模型、Ologit 模型、工具变量法和中介效应，探讨了城市独居老年人感知家庭关系对其体育参与的影响机制。
研究结果表明：（1）中国老年人的体育参与活跃度普遍处于较低水平；（2）感知家庭关系对体育参与活跃度有影响，即良好的家庭关系会增加他们的体育参与活跃度，而且这种趋势存在明显的性别差异；（3）城市独居老年人的 SPS 活跃度存在地区差异，一线城市和二线城市的感知家庭关系对他们的体育参与活跃度有更显著的影响；（4）中介效应分析表明，感知家庭关系可以通过重建老年人的自尊，间接地促进他们对体育活动的参与，这种影响在女性中更为明显。
因此，家庭在促进老年人参与体育活动方面的重要作用不容忽视。
