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ArticleFrontiers in public health2022

The impact of social support on the quality of life among older adults in China: An empirical study based on the 2020 CFPS.

Tongtong Shen, Dongju Li, Zengyun Hu, Jie Li, Xi Wei

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Tongtong ShenSchool of Statistics, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, China.
Dongju LiSchool of Statistics and Big Data, Henan University of Economics and Law, Zhengzhou, China.
Zengyun HuState Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China.
Jie LiSchool of Statistics and Big Data, Henan University of Economics and Law, Zhengzhou, China.
Xi WeiSchool of Statistics and Big Data, Henan University of Economics and Law, Zhengzhou, China.
Henan University of Economic and Law · CNDongbei University of Finance and Economics · CNHenan University · CNXinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography · CN

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Abstract

Background: As aging issues become serious, how to guarantee and improve the quality of life among older adults has become a hot topic in China. This article is aimed to discuss the impact of formal and informal social support on the quality of life among older adults and the differences in gender and urban-rural areas. Methods: The data used in this article are from the 2020 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS). Quality of life is measured from three dimensions of life: satisfaction, self-rated health, and mental state. This article uses the ordered logistic regression model to analyze the impact of social support on life satisfaction and self-rated health, and the binary logistic regression model to analyze the impact of social support on the mental state. The method of Shapley value decomposition further analyzes the contribution of influencing factors to the quality of life. Results: The activities of daily living (ADL) and income significantly impact the quality of life among older adults. Formal and informal social support positively improved the quality of life among older adults, but the effect of informal social support is greater than that of formal social support. The male older adults are significantly better than the female adults across all three dimensions of quality of life. The mental state of urban older adults is better than that of rural older adults. Conclusion: Formal and informal social support should be strengthened to improve the income of older adults. Older adults should be encouraged to participate in social activities and good interpersonal relationships should be established actively. Female older adults should be paid more attention. The proportion of female older adults participating in insurance should be increased, and the family and intergenerational care burden for female older adults should be reduced. The leisure life of urban older adults should be enriched. The basic social insurance and health service systems in rural areas should be improved.

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Activities of Daily LivingQuality of LifeAgedChinaFemaleHumansMaleRural PopulationSocial Supportformal social supportinformal social supportolder adultsquality of lifeShapley value decomposition

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