Full and empty nest syndromes in women in the climacteric period

Abreu, Antônio Suárez; Alves, Mayara Souza; Zuchelo, Lea Tami Suzuki; Santos, Sueli Vitorino dos; Noll, Priscilla Rayanne e Silva; Baracat, Edmund Chada; Júnior, José Maria Soares; Sorpreso, Isabel Cristina Espósito

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“…Therefore, it is of great practical signi cance for the government, the society and the public to adapt to the empty-nest and aging society, and then to promote the concept of active aging and healthy aging by actively exploring how to scienti cally deal with the social reality of the increasing number of empty-nest elderly so as to better promote their health. Some studies have pointed out that the health status of empty nesters is relatively poor, and their physical health and psychological health are far inferior to those of non-empty nesters, mainly manifesting symptoms such as loneliness, depression, and anxiety [5][6], and some empty nesters even have the phenomenon of suicide [7]. Since children cannot stay with them for a long time or do not have a spouse to live with, the emotional needs of empty nesters are not met and their mental health will have corresponding problems; most empty nesters usually do not like to go out of their homes actively to participate in social activities and lack necessary socialization, exercise and learning activities, which leads to poor physical health of empty nesters as well.…”

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The Influence of Social Participation on the Multidimensional Health of Empty Nest Elderly: Evidence from China

Peng

Luo

2022

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Background The number of empty nesters in China is increasing and their health status is poor relative to that of non-empty nesters. However, older adults are not yet aware of the direct and indirect health-promoting effects of social engagement. Methods This study used data from the 2018 China Health and Aging Tracking Survey (CHARLS2018) to first conduct a descriptive analysis of the social engagement status and health status of empty nesters, then analyze the effect of social engagement on the health of empty nesters using a multiple regression model, and conduct robustness tests using propensity score matching methods, and then use a mediating effects model to explore the effect of social engagement on Then, we used the mediating effect model to explore the mechanism of social participation on the health of empty nesters, and finally, we used subsample regression to analyze the heterogeneity of different groups of empty nesters. Results First, there is a significant effect of social participation on the health status of the empty nesters, and the effects of various types of health still hold after using the propensity score matching method to deal with the endogeneity problem caused by sample selection; Second, economic income and cognitive ability have a significant mediating effect in the process of social participation affecting the health of the empty nesters; Third, there is age, urban and rural heterogeneity in the effect of social participation on the health of the empty nesters heterogeneity, i.e., social participation had a greater impact on the health of urban empty nesters and social participation had the greatest impact on the health of empty nesters aged 70–79. Conclusions These results highlight the facilitative effect of social participation on the health status of empty nesters and clarify the mediating role of cognitive ability and economic income in the influence process.

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