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PSYCHOLOGY AND AGING
Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages 386-391Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.2.386
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Chinese older persons; social support; negative interactions; mental health; heterogeneity in old age
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The authors examined the effects of social support and negative interactions on life satisfaction and depressed affect among older Chinese, and age differences in these associations. The sample consisted of 2,943 Chinese elders who were 60-94 years of age. Structural equation modeling results suggest that both social support and negative interactions have significant contributions to life satisfaction and depressed affect. Social support has stronger effects than negative interactions on life satisfaction; their effects on depressed affect are comparable. Further, depressed affect of old-old (70+ years) Chinese reacts more strongly to both social support and negative interactions than the young-old (60-69 years).
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