Department of Health Administration, Kongju National University, Gongju, South Korea.
BK21 Four Community-Based Intelligent Novel Drug Discovery Education Unit, College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea.
PLoS One. 2023 Jul 13;18(7):e0288095. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288095. eCollection 2023.
Happiness is predicted by social relationships in general and contact frequency in particular. This study aims to examine if the relative importance of social contacts with the closest family/relative, friend, and neighbor in happiness changes with advancing age. We used data for all participants aged 19 years and older (n = 229,099) in the 2019 Community Health Survey, which measured the frequency of contact with the closest relative/family, neighbor, and friend among a representative sample of Koreans between August 16 and October 31, 2019. The Shapley value decomposition method was used to measure the relative importance of each predictor of happiness. Overall, contact frequency was positively associated with happiness (p<0.001). The relative importance value of contact with the closest family, neighbor, and friend to happiness increased from 4.70%, 3.98%, and 7.35%, respectively, in the 19-29 years group to 8.09%, 4.44%, and 11.00%, respectively, in the 60 years and older group. Frequent interactions with the closest friend could have a greater impact on happiness in old age than those with the closest family and neighbor.
幸福感通常由社会关系决定，而接触频率则是其中的关键因素。本研究旨在探讨随着年龄的增长，与最亲近的家人/亲属、朋友和邻居的社会接触在幸福感中的相对重要性是否会发生变化。我们使用了 2019 年社区健康调查中所有 19 岁及以上参与者的数据（n=229099），该调查于 2019 年 8 月 16 日至 10 月 31 日期间对韩国具有代表性的样本进行了测量，以了解与最亲近的亲属/家人、邻居和朋友的接触频率。我们采用 Shapley 值分解方法来衡量每个幸福感预测因素的相对重要性。总体而言，接触频率与幸福感呈正相关（p<0.001）。与最亲近的家人、邻居和朋友接触对幸福感的相对重要性值从 19-29 岁组的 4.70%、3.98%和 7.35%，分别增加到 60 岁及以上组的 8.09%、4.44%和 11.00%。在老年时，与最亲近的朋友频繁互动可能对幸福感的影响比与最亲近的家人和邻居更大。
