Venkatraman M M
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, USA.
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 1995 Jan;50(1):S35-S44. doi: 10.1093/geronb/50b.1.s35.
Systematically comparable data on married elders from the United States (n = 567; ages 60+) and Madras, India (n = 207; ages 55+) and simultaneous factor analyses (LISREL) were used to test the cross-cultural metric and structural invariance of a model of the influence of emotional social support from role relationships (adult children, spouse, and friends and relatives) on subjective well-being, based on social support and interactional role theories. Except for cross-cultural differences in measurement error variances, the model showed a high degree of invariance across the two samples. Americans and Indians were unexpectedly similar in terms of the influence of emotional social support from role relationships on their subjective well-being. The discussion explores why cross-culturally similar relationships exist between emotional support and subjective well-being for married elders in two such apparently different societies.
基于社会支持和互动角色理论，运用来自美国（n = 567；60岁以上）和印度马德拉斯（n = 207；55岁以上）已婚老年人的系统可比数据以及同时进行的因素分析（LISREL），来检验一个关于角色关系（成年子女、配偶以及朋友和亲戚）中的情感社会支持对主观幸福感影响的模型的跨文化度量和结构不变性。除了测量误差方差方面的跨文化差异外，该模型在两个样本中显示出高度的不变性。在角色关系中的情感社会支持对主观幸福感的影响方面，美国人和印度人出人意料地相似。讨论探讨了在这两个看似不同的社会中，已婚老年人的情感支持与主观幸福感之间为何存在跨文化相似的关系。
