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Family relations and life satisfaction of older people
— a comparative study between two different hukous in China | | Author(s) | Huang Yunong |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 32, part 1, January 2012 |
| Pages | pp 19-40 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Family relationships ; Life satisfaction ; Rural areas ; Urban areas ; China. |
| Annotation | The Chinese hukou system is an administrative system first implemented in 1960 to control the movement of people between urban and non-urban areas. There are two kinds of hukous: agricultural or rural, and non-agricultural or urban. This paper examined the relationships between family relations and life satisfaction between two groups of older people with different Chinese hukous. Five factors related to family relations were included in the study, namely: family support network, satisfaction with family support, family harmony, filial support and filial discrepancy. A total of 532 valid questionnaires, 263 and 269 being filled in by older people with agricultural and non-agricultural hukous, respectively, were obtained. Bivariate analyses indicated that five factors were correlated significantly with life satisfaction for both groups of older people. The results of hierarchical regression analyses showed that when controlling for socio-demographic variables, filial support was associated with life satisfaction for both groups of older people; satisfaction with family support and filial discrepancy was only associated with life satisfaction among older people with agricultural hukous; family harmony only contributed to explaining life satisfaction among older people with non-agricultural hukous. The present study confirmed the importance of family relations to older people's lives. The policy and practice implications of the study are discussed in the context of China's social and economic changes. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120312002 A |
| Classmark | DS:SJ: F:5HH: RL: RK: 7DC |
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