城乡空巢老人的亲子支持及其与抑郁的关系

采用老年人亲子支持问卷和流调中心用抑郁自评量表(CES-D),对196名老人进行问卷调查,考察城乡空巢老人亲子支持的特点及其与抑郁的关系.结果表明:(1)总体上,老人接受子女的社会支持与给予子女的社会支持差异不显著.(2)在接受子女支持上,服务支持最多,其次是情感和物质支持,非空巢与空巢老人,城市与农村老人均无差异.(3)而在给予子女支持上,情感和服务支持高于物质支持,非空巢与空巢老人无显著差异,而城市老人在各维度上均高于农村老人.(4)影响老人抑郁的亲子支持维度不同:对城市非空巢老人,给予子女的情感支持越多,抑郁水平越低;对城市空巢老人,给予子女的情感支持越多,物质支持越少,抑郁水平越低.农村非空巢老人接受子女的服务支持越多,抑郁水平越低;而对农村空巢老人,亲子支持可能不影响其抑郁.因此,为了提高老年人的心理健康水平,对待不同处境的老年人应采取不同的干预措施.

The Intergenerational Social Support and Its Impact on Depression in the Empty Nest Aged among Urban and Rural Areas

The present study applied Parents-Adult Children Social Support Scale and Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale(CES-D)to 196 elderly.Results showed that:regarded the non-empty nester from urban areas,the empty nester from urban areas,the non-empty nester from rural areas and the empty nester from rural areas four groups of people,(1) the social support receiving from adult children matched the giving;(2) in respect of the social support receiving from adult children,service support was the mostl...