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Childlessness and psychological well-being in Chinese older adults
Author(s)	Kee-Lee Chou, Iris Chi
Journal title	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 19, no 5, May 2004
Pages	pp 449-457
Source	http://www.interscience.wiley.com
Keywords	Chinese people ; Childless ; Well being ; Cross sectional surveys ; China.
Annotation	Logistic regression analyses of cross-sectional data collected from a representative community sample of 2000 Chinese older people aged 60+ in Hong Kong revealed that childlessness was significantly related to loneliness and depression, even after controlling for marital status, gender, age, education, self-reported health, and financial strain. The impact of childlessness on psychological well-being in older Chinese people is more robust that that found in older Americans. Moreover, consistent with the findings of previous studies, the authors found that the effect of childlessness on psychological well-being has to be investigated in the context of marital status. Service providers need to take this risk factor into consideration in their preventive intervention and treatment for psychological well-being. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-040622206 A
Classmark	TKL: SU: D:F:5HH: 3KB: 7DC
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