The mediation effect of expectations regarding aging on elderly in community to sense age discrimination and healthy situation
ZHANG Jinlan
ZHAN Yan
SHEN Pan
SHI Linlin
CHEN Lin
Abstract：Objective To understand perceived ageism,expectation regarding aging and health status of the elderly in the community,analyze the influencing factors of ERA,and explore the mediating effect of aging expectation on the ERA and health status of the elderly in the community.Methods A total of 406 older people from three communities in Shiyan City were selected as research objects by multi-stage stratified sampling from Feb.to Oct.2022.General data questionnaire,the Perceived Ageism Questionnaire,The 12-Item Expectation Regard-ing Aging and the 36-item Short Form Health Survey Scale were used for questionnaire survey.Results About 45.81%of older people in the community had experienced perceived ageism in the past year.The ERA score of the elderly in the community was(30.97±9.16),and the health status score was(61.76±13.30).Pearson correlation analysis showed that perceived age discrimination was negatively correlated with ERA(r=-0.353,P＜0.001).There was a positive correlation between ERA and health status(r=0.409,P＜0.001),and a negative correla-tion between perceived age discrimination and health status(r=-0.419,P＜0.01).Multiple linear regression analysis showed that the main e-conomic source(B=1.092,P＜0.05),number of children(B=-1.426,P＜0.05),perceived ageism(B=4.200,P＜0.001)were the factors af-fecting the expectation of aging in the community.Perceived Ageism can directly negatively predict health status.ERA played a partial media-ting role in the relationship between Perceived Ageism and health status of the elderly in the community.The mediating effect was-0.253,ac-counting for 58.14%of the total effect.Conclusion Attention should be paid to the health status of the elderly in the community.Community workers can improve the aging expectation level of the elderly in the community by starting from the aging expectation,so as to weaken the influence of perceived age discrimination on health status and finally achieve the purpose of improving the health status of the elderly in the community.
Keywords：older peopleaging expectationperceived age discriminationstate of healthmediating effect
Publication Date：2023-08-10
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 674-679 )