PROVIDING SUPPORT TO OTHERS AND WELL-BEING IN LATER LIFE
PROVIDING SUPPORT TO OTHERS AND WELL-BEING IN LATER LIFE
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DOI：
10.1093/geronj/47.5.p300
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发表时间：
1992-09-01
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通讯作者：
BAKER, E
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作者：
KRAUSE, N;HERZOG, AR;BAKER, E
尽管现在有大量关于晚年生活中支持性社会关系的文献，但这些研究大多关注于评估从他人那里获得支持的好处。这项研究的目的是评估在非正式和正式环境中向他人提供支持是否也会使年长的帮助提供者受益。最近在全国范围内对老年人进行的一项调查结果显示，向他人提供非正式帮助(但不是正式帮助)似乎会增强晚年的个人控制感。数据进一步显示，较高的个人控制感反过来与较低的抑郁症状水平有关。
Although there is now a voluminous literature on supportive social relations in later life, most of this research has been concerned with assessing the beneficial effects of receiving support from others. The purpose of this study is to assess whether giving support to others within informal as well as formal settings might also benefit older help-providers. Findings from a recent nationwide survey of the elderly suggest that giving informal assistance to others (but not formal assistance) appears to bolster feelings of personal control in later life. The data further reveal that greater feelings of personal control are in turn related to lower levels of depressive symptomatology.