Social relations and health assessments among older people: do the effects of integration and social contributions vary cross-culturally?
Social relations and health assessments among older people: do the effects of integration and social contributions vary cross-culturally?
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老年人之间的社会关系和健康评估：融合和社会贡献的影响是否因文化而异？
DOI：
10.1093/geronb/52b.1.s27
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发表时间：
1997
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Ferraro,KF
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作者：
Su,YP;Ferraro,KF
关于健康评估的研究表明，社会关系是影响健康的一个重要因素，特别是在老年人中。利用社会整合和社会交换的社会学理论，本研究探讨了两个领域的社会关系，预计会影响评估的健康。此外，该研究使用了来自大韩民国，斐济，马来西亚和菲律宾的非机构化老年人的跨国样本（N = 3，407），以确定现代化是否会影响社会关系和健康之间的关系。结果表明，社会融合有积极的影响，在所有国家的主观健康评估，而社会贡献是显着的，只有在韩国。研究结果表明，在最现代化的国家，老年人的健康评估似乎更受他们对社会秩序的贡献的影响，而不是在现代化程度较低的国家。
Research on health assessments has shown the importance of social relations as a factor influencing health, especially among older people. Drawing upon sociological theories of social integration and social exchange, this research examines two domains of social relations which are expected to influence assessed health. In addition, the study uses a cross-national sample (N = 3,407) of noninstitutionalized older people from the Republic of Korea, Fiji, Malaysia, and the Philippines to determine if modernization conditions the relationships between social relations and health. Results indicate that social integration has a positive effect on subjective health assessments in all nations, whereas social contributions are significant only in Korea. Findings suggest that health assessments by elders in the most modernized nations appear to be much more influenced by the contributions they make to the social order than is the case in nations which are less modernized.