ArticleFrontiers in public health2021
Widowhood and Health Status Among Chinese Older Adults: The Mediation Effects of Different Types of Support.
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- Research trends and hotspots in the mental health of widowed older adults: a bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Development of loneliness and social isolation after spousal loss: A systematic review of longitudinal studies on widowhood.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Pooled it
- Overlap of Frailty and Depression and Its Association With Cardiovascular Disease: A Population-Based Study.Clinical Medicine Insights. Cardiology · 2026Article
- The association between widowhood duration and depressive symptoms among Chinese older adults: mediation role of sleeping duration and dietary diversity.European journal of ageing · 2025Article
- Inter-relationships of depression and anxiety symptoms among widowed and non-widowed older adults: findings from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey based on network analysis and propensity score matching.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Latent class of multidimensional dependency in community-dwelling older adults: evidence from the longitudinal ageing study in India.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- The impact of grandparenting on mental health among rural middle-aged and older adults in China: exploring the role of children's support.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Cohort profile: Beijing Healthy Aging Cohort Study (BHACS).European journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Mental health status and associated contributing factors among the Hakka elderly in Fujian, China.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Although many studies have suggested that widowhood is related to worse health conditions among older adults, few have examined the mediation effects of social support between widowhood and health. Employing mediation analysis to a sample of data from the 2014 wave of China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey (CLASS), this study examined the mediation effects of social support, including emotional support, instrumental support, and companionship, in the widowhood-health association among older adults. The results indicated that the negative effect of widowhood on older adults' health was in part attributable to decreased emotional support and companionship. Specifically, emotional support exerted a significant role in the widowhood-mental health association, and companionship exerted a significant role in widowhood-physical health and widowhood-mental health associations. In the subsample analysis, the mediation effects were only significant among female older adults, and among rural older adults. Our findings highlight the importance of emotional support and companionship in maintaining health among widowed older adults and strategies should pay more attention to female and rural widowed older adults.
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