NO PENSION, NO HAPPINESS?—FINANCIAL SUPPORT EXPECTATION IN THE OLDEST-OLD AGE AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS
Chengming Han, Nan Zhou · 2023
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Chengming Han and Nan Zhou ask the very old a question: when you can no longer work, whose support do you count on? Using a national Chinese survey from 2018 covering 10,641 adults over 45, their 2023 paper links that expectation to depressive symptoms. More than half the respondents expected to rely on their children.
Those who expected to rely on themselves, through savings or insurance, reported fewer depressive symptoms than the children-reliant group, as did those expecting a pension. Once pension and health insurance coverage were accounted for, only the self-reliant expectation kept its advantage, and insurance itself carries much of the link. Rural registration status weakened that protection. The authors read the pattern as the psychology of security: expecting support cheers chiefly when the support is institutional and certain, not when it rests on the economics of one's children.
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| CREATOR | Chengming Han, Nan Zhou |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |