Impacts of Two-way Social Support and Family Care on The General Well-being of Senior Citizens in Community
Objective To explore the relationship between two-way social support,family care,and general well-being of senior citizens in community,and to analyze the mediating effect of family care in two-way so-cial support and general well-being of senior citizens in community.Methods By the convenience sampling method,383 senior citizens in community in 6 cities in Zhejiang province were selected from February to July 2022.The general demographic questionnaire,the Brief Two-way Social Support Scale,the General Well-being Scale,and the Family Care Index Questionnaire were used for the study.Modeling the mediating effect of family care on the effect of two-way social support on general well-being in senior citizens through structural equation modeling.Results Both receiving social support and providing social support in two-way social support were positively related to family care and general well-being(all P＜0.05).Receiving so-cial support has indirect effects on overall well-being through the mediating effect of social support and the chain mediating effect of social support and family caring degree,accounting for 45.6％and 29.1％of the total effects respectively.Conclusions Receiving social support can indirectly affect the overall well-being of the senior citizens through the degree of social support and family care,which means the government and relevant departments can construct measures to promote the two-way social support and family care of the senior citizens to improve their well-being.
senior citizen in communitytwo-way social supportgeneral well-beingfamily caremediating effect
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