Do the Marital Statuses of Adult Offspring Affect Their Parent’s Mental Health? Empirical Evidence from China

Given the aging population, various issues pertaining to the elderly attract attention, including their mental health. Using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS), and adopting a propensity score matching (PSM) method, this study investigated the impact of offspring’...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Yumiao, Zang, Wenbin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9408382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36011778
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610133
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description Given the aging population, various issues pertaining to the elderly attract attention, including their mental health. Using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS), and adopting a propensity score matching (PSM) method, this study investigated the impact of offspring’s marital statuses on their elderly parents’ mental health. Parental depression was positively correlated with single and divorced/separated offspring aged 30 and above; this was not the case with widowed children. We then analyzed the heterogeneous influence of offspring’s marital statuses on parents’ mental health based on gender, region, and educational background, further expanding the research.
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spelling pubmed-94083822022-08-26 Do the Marital Statuses of Adult Offspring Affect Their Parent’s Mental Health? Empirical Evidence from China Zhang, Yumiao Zang, Wenbin Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Given the aging population, various issues pertaining to the elderly attract attention, including their mental health. Using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS), and adopting a propensity score matching (PSM) method, this study investigated the impact of offspring’s marital statuses on their elderly parents’ mental health. Parental depression was positively correlated with single and divorced/separated offspring aged 30 and above; this was not the case with widowed children. We then analyzed the heterogeneous influence of offspring’s marital statuses on parents’ mental health based on gender, region, and educational background, further expanding the research. MDPI 2022-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9408382/ /pubmed/36011778 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610133 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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