Social support, self-worth, and subjective well-being in older adults of rural China: a cross-sectional study

ABSTRACT

This study explored the relationship between social support and subjective well-being of the rural Chinese older adults and investigated whether self-worth could mediate this association. A total number of 356 older adults from rural areas of China were investigated using three scales. The results were as follows: there were significant correlations between social support, self-worth, and subjective well-being (where P < 0.01 in all of them). Bootstrapping mediation analyses indicated that self-worth partly mediated the association between social support and subjective well-being. Accordingly, social support and self-worth are important targets for improving the subjective well-being level of the rural older adults.

KEYWORDS:

• Social support
• self-worth
• subjective well-being
• rural older adults

Data availability statement

Datasets are available on request by the corresponding author.

Disclosure statement

The authors report no conflict of interest.

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Funding

This research was supported by The Fundamental Research Funds for the Provincial Universities; Wu Liande Youth Scientific Research Fund of Harbin Medical University-Daqing [2018wld-01].