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Financial transfers from adult children and depressive symptoms among mid-aged and elderly residents in China - evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study
BACKGROUND: Although the awareness of mental health problems in late life is rising, the association between financial transfers to the older generations from children and mental health at older ages in China has received little attention. This study examines the association between financial transf...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6048803/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30012123 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5794-x |
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author | Wu, Yue Dong, Wanyue Xu, Yongjian Fan, Xiaojing Su, Min Gao, Jianmin Zhou, Zhongliang Niessen, Louis Wang, Yiyang Wang, Xiao |
author_facet | Wu, Yue Dong, Wanyue Xu, Yongjian Fan, Xiaojing Su, Min Gao, Jianmin Zhou, Zhongliang Niessen, Louis Wang, Yiyang Wang, Xiao |
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description | BACKGROUND: Although the awareness of mental health problems in late life is rising, the association between financial transfers to the older generations from children and mental health at older ages in China has received little attention. This study examines the association between financial transfers from children and depressive symptoms among the mid-aged and elderly residents (from 45 years of age and older) in China. METHODS: We used the data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS, 2013) (n = 10,935) This included data on financial transfers from all non-co-resident children to their parents, and the individual scores on depressive symptoms as measured by the 10-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies–Depression Scale (CESD-10). A two-level - individual and community levels - mixed linear model was deployed to explore their association. RESULTS: Financial transfers from children to parents was the major component of inter-generational financial transfers in Chinese families. A higher financial support from non-co-resident children was signivicantly and positively related to fewer depressive symptoms (coef. = − 0.195,P-value< 0.001) among both the mid-aged and elderly parents. CONCLUSIONS: Financial transfers from non-co-resident children are associated with depressive symptoms among mid-aged and elderly residents in the China situation. Taxation and other policy measures should encourage and facilitate these type of financial transfers and prevent a decrease of support from children to parents. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12889-018-5794-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-60488032018-07-19 Financial transfers from adult children and depressive symptoms among mid-aged and elderly residents in China - evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study Wu, Yue Dong, Wanyue Xu, Yongjian Fan, Xiaojing Su, Min Gao, Jianmin Zhou, Zhongliang Niessen, Louis Wang, Yiyang Wang, Xiao BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Although the awareness of mental health problems in late life is rising, the association between financial transfers to the older generations from children and mental health at older ages in China has received little attention. This study examines the association between financial transfers from children and depressive symptoms among the mid-aged and elderly residents (from 45 years of age and older) in China. METHODS: We used the data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS, 2013) (n = 10,935) This included data on financial transfers from all non-co-resident children to their parents, and the individual scores on depressive symptoms as measured by the 10-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies–Depression Scale (CESD-10). A two-level - individual and community levels - mixed linear model was deployed to explore their association. RESULTS: Financial transfers from children to parents was the major component of inter-generational financial transfers in Chinese families. A higher financial support from non-co-resident children was signivicantly and positively related to fewer depressive symptoms (coef. = − 0.195,P-value< 0.001) among both the mid-aged and elderly parents. CONCLUSIONS: Financial transfers from non-co-resident children are associated with depressive symptoms among mid-aged and elderly residents in the China situation. Taxation and other policy measures should encourage and facilitate these type of financial transfers and prevent a decrease of support from children to parents. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12889-018-5794-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2018-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6048803/ /pubmed/30012123 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5794-x Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Wu, Yue Dong, Wanyue Xu, Yongjian Fan, Xiaojing Su, Min Gao, Jianmin Zhou, Zhongliang Niessen, Louis Wang, Yiyang Wang, Xiao Financial transfers from adult children and depressive symptoms among mid-aged and elderly residents in China - evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study |
title | Financial transfers from adult children and depressive symptoms among mid-aged and elderly residents in China - evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study |
title_full | Financial transfers from adult children and depressive symptoms among mid-aged and elderly residents in China - evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study |
title_fullStr | Financial transfers from adult children and depressive symptoms among mid-aged and elderly residents in China - evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study |
title_full_unstemmed | Financial transfers from adult children and depressive symptoms among mid-aged and elderly residents in China - evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study |
title_short | Financial transfers from adult children and depressive symptoms among mid-aged and elderly residents in China - evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study |
title_sort | financial transfers from adult children and depressive symptoms among mid-aged and elderly residents in china - evidence from the china health and retirement longitudinal study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6048803/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30012123 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5794-x |
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