Neighborhood social reciprocity and mental health among older adults in China: the mediating effects of physical activity, social interaction, and volunteering

BACKGROUND: This study aims to investigate the mechanisms through which neighborhood social reciprocity influences older adults’ mental health in China. METHODS: This study used data from the 2011–2015 waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. It estimated the effects of neighborh...

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Autores principales: Wang, Ruoyu, Chen, Hongsheng, Liu, Ye, Lu, Yi, Yao, Yao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6679533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31375090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7385-x
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author Wang, Ruoyu
Chen, Hongsheng
Liu, Ye
Lu, Yi
Yao, Yao
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Chen, Hongsheng
Liu, Ye
Lu, Yi
Yao, Yao
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description BACKGROUND: This study aims to investigate the mechanisms through which neighborhood social reciprocity influences older adults’ mental health in China. METHODS: This study used data from the 2011–2015 waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. It estimated the effects of neighborhood social reciprocity on older adults’ mental health and tested the mediating effects of the frequencies of physical activity, social interaction with neighbors, and volunteering experience. RESULTS: The results indicated that more neighborhood social reciprocity related to better mental health. The effects of the three mediators were statistically significant and enhanced mental health. In addition, the effects of the mediators were strengthened by neighborhood social reciprocity, and vice versa. CONCLUSIONS: In China, neighborhood social reciprocity influenced older adults’ mental health directly and through the mechanisms of the frequencies of physical activity, social interaction with neighbors, and volunteering experience.
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spelling pubmed-66795332019-08-06 Neighborhood social reciprocity and mental health among older adults in China: the mediating effects of physical activity, social interaction, and volunteering Wang, Ruoyu Chen, Hongsheng Liu, Ye Lu, Yi Yao, Yao BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: This study aims to investigate the mechanisms through which neighborhood social reciprocity influences older adults’ mental health in China. METHODS: This study used data from the 2011–2015 waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. It estimated the effects of neighborhood social reciprocity on older adults’ mental health and tested the mediating effects of the frequencies of physical activity, social interaction with neighbors, and volunteering experience. RESULTS: The results indicated that more neighborhood social reciprocity related to better mental health. The effects of the three mediators were statistically significant and enhanced mental health. In addition, the effects of the mediators were strengthened by neighborhood social reciprocity, and vice versa. CONCLUSIONS: In China, neighborhood social reciprocity influenced older adults’ mental health directly and through the mechanisms of the frequencies of physical activity, social interaction with neighbors, and volunteering experience. BioMed Central 2019-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6679533/ /pubmed/31375090 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7385-x Text en © The Author(s). 2019 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.
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Wang, Ruoyu
Chen, Hongsheng
Liu, Ye
Lu, Yi
Yao, Yao
Neighborhood social reciprocity and mental health among older adults in China: the mediating effects of physical activity, social interaction, and volunteering
title Neighborhood social reciprocity and mental health among older adults in China: the mediating effects of physical activity, social interaction, and volunteering
title_full Neighborhood social reciprocity and mental health among older adults in China: the mediating effects of physical activity, social interaction, and volunteering
title_fullStr Neighborhood social reciprocity and mental health among older adults in China: the mediating effects of physical activity, social interaction, and volunteering
title_full_unstemmed Neighborhood social reciprocity and mental health among older adults in China: the mediating effects of physical activity, social interaction, and volunteering
title_short Neighborhood social reciprocity and mental health among older adults in China: the mediating effects of physical activity, social interaction, and volunteering
title_sort neighborhood social reciprocity and mental health among older adults in china: the mediating effects of physical activity, social interaction, and volunteering
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6679533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31375090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7385-x
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