Abstract
This research examines how intergenerational relations impact subjective well-being among the elderly aged 85 and over in China. Through analyzing data from the 2011 wave of Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS), the results show that better intergenerational relations promote the elderly’s positive feelings and reduce their negative feelings. The findings also suggest that the influence of intergenerational relations on Chinese oldest-old’s subjective well-being varies by gender and residence. In addition, financial support from children or financial exchanges with offspring is found to decrease negative feelings of the Chinese oldest-old, but it does not improve their positive feelings. Such results emphasize that non-financial support from offspring may be more important factors than financial support in promoting the Chinese oldest-old’s subjective well-being. The research draws future research attention to exploring non-financial forms of intergenerational support to promote Chinese oldest-old’s subjective well-being.
Highlights
With the trend of population aging, social scientists have paid more and more attention to issues of healthy aging
This research intends to fill the voids of prior literature by examining how intergenerational relations impact the Chinese elderly’s subjective well-being by gender and residence
The logic of constructing the above indices is that each group of variables measures the same concept. This strategy reduces the number of variables in the analysis and improves the efficiency of the regression models that estimate the relationship between intergenerational relations and elderly’s subjective well-being
Summary
With the trend of population aging, social scientists have paid more and more attention to issues of healthy aging. Through studying about 300 elderly in Hunan city of Changsha province, Deng and associates (2012) found that better intergenerational relations and more social support could significantly improve the elderly’s subjective well-being. Most existing studies tended to examine the Chinese elderly as a whole without distinguishing their variation by gender and residence when studying the impact of intergenerational relations on elderly’s subjective well-being. Prior research has seldom compared the impact of various forms (emotional, instrumental, or tangible) of intergenerational support on Chinese elderly’s subjective well-being. This research intends to fill the voids of prior literature by examining how intergenerational relations impact the Chinese elderly’s subjective well-being by gender and residence. The study compares how various forms of intergenerational support lead to different subjective well-being outcomes among subgroups of the Chinese elderly. This research excludes those under 85 years of age, which yields a total number of studied elderly as 5205 (3246 females and 1959 males), ranging from 85 to 114 years old with an average age of 94
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