Multi-Level Social Capital and Subjective Wellbeing Among the Elderly: Understanding the Effect of Family, Workplace, Community, and Society Social Capital

Frontiers in Public Health

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Zongyou Xu¹  Wenjie Zhang³  Xuewen Zhang⁴  Yixi Wang¹  Qing Chen¹  Bo Gao¹  Ningxiu Li¹ 

[1] Department of Health Related Social and Behavioral Science, West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University;Medical School, Hubei Minzu University;Department of Academic Affairs, West China School of Medicine and West China Hospital, Sichuan University;School of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Jining Medical University

关键词: subjective wellbeing;    social capital;    family;    workplace;    community;    society;    aging;    China;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2022.772601

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Background Maintaining the subjective wellbeing of the elderly people is one of the major concerns in promoting health aging. This study concerned the influence of multi-level social capital on subjective welling and explored the affecting path among the elderly. Methods A total of 1,078 elderly individuals anonymously and effectively surveyed in 2018, data was collected including their family, workplace, community, society social capital and subjective wellbeing, we used the structural equation modeling to test the hypothesis relationships among the variables. Results We found that the total score of subjective wellbeing among the aging participants was 72.36 ± 10.08 on a range of 0–100. Family (β = 0.151, P < 0.001), workplace (β = 0.090, P < 0.001), community (β = 0.163, P < 0.001) social capital had a direct positive effect on subjective wellbeing. Society social capital had a direct positive effect on family (β = 0.253, P < 0.001), workplace (β = 0.585, P < 0.001), community (β = 0.438, P < 0.001) social capital. And society social capital had an indirect positive effect on subjective wellbeing through the mediating role of family, workplace, and community social capital. Conclusion The research demonstrated that all the micro, meso and macro levels of social capital have protective effects for subjective wellbeing through direct or indirect way, inspiring to provide continuous improvement measures for multi-level social capital aimed at the elderly people.

【 授权许可】

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