Participation in socially-productive activities, reciprocity and wellbeing in later life: baseline results in England
Participation in socially-productive activities, reciprocity and wellbeing in later life: baseline results in England
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DOI：
10.1017/s0144686x08008350
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发表时间：
2009-07-01
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2.5
通讯作者：
Zaninotto, Paola
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作者：
McMunn, Anne;Nazroo, James;Zaninotto, Paola
本文探讨了参与社会活动是否与英国退休后年龄人群的幸福感水平较高有关，如果是这样，这些关系是否可以用这些活动的相互作用来解释。社会活动（包括有偿工作，照顾和志愿服务）和幸福感（生活质量，生活满意度和抑郁症）之间的关系的横断面分析是在英国老龄化纵向研究（艾尔莎）的一波参与者中进行的，他们是国家养老金年龄或以上。参加有偿或志愿工作的人通常比不参加这些活动的人有更好的幸福感。关怀与幸福感无关，尽管女性照顾者比非照顾者更不容易抑郁。照顾者，志愿者和那些有报酬的工作谁觉得他们的活动有足够的回报比那些谁没有参加这些活动，而那些谁没有更好的福祉。感觉得到奖励的人与非参与者没有区别。这些结果表明，需要增加老年人从生产活动中获得的回报，特别是在照顾工作方面。
This paper examines whether participation in social activities is associated with higher levels of wellbeing among post-retirement age people in England, and, if so, whether these relationships are explained by the reciprocal nature of these activities. Cross-sectional analysis of relationships between social activities (including paid work, caring and volunteering) and wellbeing (quality of life, life satisfaction and depression) Was conducted among participants of one wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) who were of state pension age or older. Participants in paid or voluntary work generally had more favourable wellbeing than those who did riot participate in these activities. Caring was not associated with wellbeing, although female carers were less likely to he depressed than noncarers. Carers, volunteers and those in paid work who felt adequately rewarded For their activities had better wellbeing than those who were not participating in those activities, while those who did not. feel rewarded did not differ from non-participants. These results point to the need to increase the rewards that older people receive from their productive activities, particularly in relation to caring work.