Psychological Well-being and Social Supports among the Rural Left-behind Elderly in Ethnic Minority Areas
- DOI
- 10.2991/sschd-16.2016.119How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Left-behind old people, Psychological well-being, Social support.
- Abstract
To describe the status of psychological well-being, and analyze the relationship between the psychological well-being and the social supports among the rural left-behind elderly in ethnic minority areas. [Methods] A cross-sectional survey was conducted with a structured questionnaire among 249 old people at the age of 60 or older in August 2013 in the eight villages of Zhuchangping town in Xingyi city, Qianxinan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture of Guizhou province, China. [Results] The total score of psychological well-being was (26.41±4.22), and the score of adaptation dimension was (6.10±2.06) among the left-behind elderly, which were lower than the scores among the non left-behind elderly (P<0.05). The score of personality, emotion, interpersonal relation and cognition dimensions among the left-behind was (4.18±1.30), (4.57±1.38), (6.48±1.39), and (5.07±1.67), respectively. There was a significant difference in the total score of psychological well-being among the old people with different characteristics of total social support, subjective support, support utilization level, subjective support outside family, visiting a doctor conveniently, mental health consultation, economic source, financial relief, and talking on phone with children every week (P<0.05 or P<0.01). [Conclusion] The status of psychological well-being is worse among the rural left-behind elderly. The psychological well-being is related to the social supports.
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- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Jian Hu AU - Si-Yuan Li PY - 2015/12 DA - 2015/12 TI - Psychological Well-being and Social Supports among the Rural Left-behind Elderly in Ethnic Minority Areas BT - Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development PB - Atlantis Press SP - 614 EP - 618 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/sschd-16.2016.119 DO - 10.2991/sschd-16.2016.119 ID - Hu2015/12 ER -