Liang J
J Gerontol. 1982 Jan;37(1):100-8. doi: 10.1093/geronj/37.1.100.
Sex differences in life satisfaction are a recurrent research issue in the field of social gerontology. However, the evidence concerning the effect of sex on morale is still inconclusive. This may be due to (a) the neglect of other relevant variables, (b) the failure to distinguish between main effects and interaction effects, and (c) the lack of formal statistical tests in making comparisons. In this study, a causal model of life satisfaction is proposed and evaluated by using four data sets with sample sizes ranging from 961 to 3,996. The proposed structural model fitted both the male and female subsamples reasonably well. The findings were also replicated across these four data sets. No systematic sex difference was found in terms of structural parameters. This indicates that the same causal mechanism is operating among the males as well as the females.
生活满意度方面的性别差异是社会老年学领域反复研究的问题。然而，关于性别对士气影响的证据仍然没有定论。这可能是由于：（a）忽视了其他相关变量；（b）未能区分主效应和交互效应；（c）在进行比较时缺乏正式的统计检验。在本研究中，提出了一个生活满意度的因果模型，并使用四个样本量从961到3996的数据集进行评估。所提出的结构模型对男性和女性子样本的拟合都相当好。这些结果也在这四个数据集中得到了重复验证。在结构参数方面未发现系统性的性别差异。这表明相同的因果机制在男性和女性中都在起作用。
