机构：[1]School of Politics and Public Administration, Soochow University,Collaborative Innovation Center for New-type Urbanization and SocialGovernance of Jiangsu Province, Suzhou, China[2]School of Stastistics andMathemetics, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming,China[3]School of Management, Zhejiang International Studies University,Hangzhou, China[4]School of Philosophy and sociology, NorthwestUniversity, Xi′an, China[5]School of Government, Central University ofFinance and Economics, Beijing, China[6]The first affiliated hospital ofSoochow University, Suzhou, China[7]Nanjing University of Science andTechnology, Nanjing, China[8]Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
Many Chinese elderly increasingly face the serious problem of the "empty nest" phenomenon. The elderly living independently, also called empty-nest elderly, refers to elderly people living alone whose children left home. However few studies concerned about the subjective well-being (SWB) of the elderly living independently.
This study employs The Memorial University of Newfoundland Scale of Happiness (MUNSH) to explore the SWB of the elderly living independently in rural areas of Wenzhou, a relatively developed region in China. 536 sampled are randomly selected.
The results indicate that participants obtained low scores in positive affect, positive experience, and the total SWB score, but high scores in negative affect and negative experience. Age, low education, poor health condition and little income were found to be negatively correlated with SWB. The SWB score of the elderly living with a spouse is higher than those who divorced or lost their spouse and the score of women is lower than that of men. In addition, the survey revealed that children's support has a positive influence on the SWB of the rural elderly living independently.
The elderly living independently in rural Wenzhou, China have unfavorable SWB. Poor socio-economic statuses are negative impact factors. But the children's support can help to improve. Special attention is needed to those with lower socio-economic status and less children's support.
基金：
Collaborative Innovation Center for New-type
Urbanization and Social Governance of Jiangsu Province, a Project Funded
by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education
Institutions (PAPD) Politics, and the major project of National Social Science
foundation of China (14zda052), the project of National Natural Science
foundation of China (71373212).
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外文
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大类|2 区医学
小类|2 区公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生
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第一作者机构：[1]School of Politics and Public Administration, Soochow University,Collaborative Innovation Center for New-type Urbanization and SocialGovernance of Jiangsu Province, Suzhou, China
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推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714)：
Zhou Yicheng,Zhou Linyi,Fu Changluan,et al.Socio-economic factors related with the subjective well-being of the rural elderly people living independently in China.[J].International journal for equity in health.2015,14:5.doi:10.1186/s12939-015-0136-4.
APA：
Zhou Yicheng,Zhou Linyi,Fu Changluan,Wang You,Liu Qingle...&Zheng Linfeng.(2015).Socio-economic factors related with the subjective well-being of the rural elderly people living independently in China..International journal for equity in health,14,
MLA：
Zhou Yicheng,et al."Socio-economic factors related with the subjective well-being of the rural elderly people living independently in China.".International journal for equity in health 14.(2015):5
