农村老年扩展型家庭体系内代际支持机制及老年人健康后果—基于13年的大样本追踪调查

In the situation of drastic social change, especially serious labor force outflow in rural China,the intergenerational support in the extended family linked by the blood ties is of great significance for the elderly's wellbeing. In this study, we employ life course theory as guiding perspective, combined with a person-centered approach, to explore the overall intergenerational exchange pattern in the context of extended family and the motivation and dynamic mechanism of it. We will also discuss how the intergenerational exchange adapt to the social changes and how it affacts the elderly healthy consequences such as physical, psychological, the end-of-life wellbeing and mortality etc. This project will take full advantage of a decade-long Longitudinal Study on the Well-Being of Older People in Anhui Province China and expand the themes to the extended family. With an additional wave of data, we can relate proxies' posthumous report of before death intergenerational relationships with self-reported intergenerational interactions. We will relate proximal as well as distal factors that will contribute to variations in the whole life course experiences. This project will make up for the limitations of the study of elderly's end-of-life wellbeing. This project will go beyond dyadic relations and fully understand what motivates and sustains intergenerational support. This study will make significant contributions to the literature and promote theoretical advancing. The results provide ideas to establish or adjust relative polices on improving the wellbeing of rural Chinese elderly and to promote sustainable economic and social development of rural China.

在社会急剧变迁、尤其是劳动力严重外流的状况下，以血缘纽带天然紧密联结的扩展家庭的支持对老年人的福利意义重大。本研究采用生命历程的视角和以个人为中心的研究方法，发展出扩展家庭代际交换的整体模式，深入系统地挖掘其动力和维持机制，探讨其如何适应社会变迁，进而如何影响老年人的生理、心理和临终期福利、死亡率等健康后果。本研究将充分利用一个历时十余年的"中国安徽省老年人福利调查"的纵向调查课题，将代际关系模式的研究主题延伸至扩展家庭。通过新一轮的数据追踪，将老年人临终期与前期调查中的生前信息进行联接，尽可能的收集代际交换的近端和远端信息，获取整个生命历程的历时资料，弥补了老年人临终福利研究的不足；超越之前的"老人- - 子女"配对设计，在家族网络中研究成员间全面的代际关系和互动行为，是对已有研究的大幅度推进，具重要的理论创新价值，并为促进农村老年人福利水平和农村人口与经济社会的可持续发展提供公共政策建议。