Open AccessSubjective Well-Being among Empty-Nest Elderly and Its Related Factors：Taking Guangdong Province as an Example
Author(s) -
Yongmei Hou,
Zhen Guo,
Que Zheng
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of geriatric medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2630-5259
DOI - 10.30564/jgm.v1i3.2225
Subject(s) - happiness , demography , social support , stratified sampling , psychology , rating scale , family support , scale (ratio) , gerontology , medicine , geography , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , developmental psychology , sociology , cartography , physical therapy
Objective: To explore the the status of happiness and social support of empty nesters in Guangdong Province and analyze the relationship between the above two variables.Method: Totally 1148 empty nesters (776 males, 734 females) from 5 cities in Guangdong province are selected by stratified random sampling and conducted with Memorial University of Newfoundland Scale of Happiness (MUNSH), Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS), Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and a self-edited questionnaire on the general information.Results: The total score of MUNSH is (10.20±6.37). The total score and the scores of the 3 dimensions of objective support, subject support, the use of support in SSRS are (30.79±5.51), (9.24±2.37), (19.38±4.95) and (9.22±2.15) respectively. Multiple variable linear regression show that are positively associated with the total scores of MUNSH (B= .227, .115, .098.158.082respectively, P.05). was negatively associated with total score of MUNSH (B=-.097P.05).ConclusionIt suggests that the sort of leisure, gender, progress rank, family characteristics, such as family economic condition and father's career may be related factors of undergraduates life satisfaction.