在COVID-19大流行期间的婚姻状况和幸福感
1Department of Sociology and Center on Aging and the Life Course, Purdue University.
Journal of marriage and the family
|June 3, 2024
概括
由于COVID-19的流行,已婚和未婚的老年人之间的幸福差距缩小了,尽管已婚的人仍然更快乐. 离婚的个人经历了更多的不快乐,与家庭关系有关.
科学领域:
- 老年学是指老年学的学科.
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
背景情况:
- 长期观察到的婚姻幸福优势可能受到COVID-19大流行的影响.
- 在疫情的独特情况下,社会融合的变化与婚姻幸福的关系以前没有被研究过.
- 这项研究解决了了解疫情如何影响婚姻状况和幸福感的差距.
研究的目的:
- 在COVID-19大流行期间检查婚姻幸福的优势.
- 调查与非居民家庭和朋友关系的变化如何影响婚姻状况和流行病幸福之间的关联.
- 在未婚的老年人中确定特定的子组,这些老年人对幸福感有不同的影响.
主要方法:
- 利用了国家社会生活,健康和衰老项目的COVID-19子研究数据 (N=2622).
- 采用了一系列回归分析来评估婚姻状况差异的流行病幸福感.
- 进行了Karlson-Holm-Breen调解分析,以探索社会关系在婚姻幸福协会中的作用.
主要成果:
- 结婚的人从疫情前到疫情后,不快乐的增加更大,减少了幸福差异.
- 未婚群体 (同居者,离婚者,寡妇,从未结婚者) 一般报告的不快乐程度高于已婚同龄人,主要是由于疫情前的水平.
- 在大流行期间,离婚者表现出持续更高的不快乐程度,主要与与非居民家庭的较差关系有关.
结论:
- 疫情改变了婚姻幸福的优势,缩小了差距,但对已婚个人来说保持了整体更高的幸福感.
- 疫情前的幸福水平是未婚老年人疫情时代不快乐的重要因素.
- 促进幸福和健康衰老的干预措施对所有老年人至关重要,重点关注离婚者及其社会联系.
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