Examining Longitudinal Relationships between Social Support and Strain in Relationships with Children and Older Adults’ Cognitive Functioning

IF 6.3 1区医学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Journal of Health and Social Behavior Pub Date : 2025-04-26 DOI:10.1177/00221465251335039

Jennifer Caputo, Linda Waite, Kathleen A. Cagney

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Abstract

Relationships with children are often highly salient to older adults and can be characterized by both social support and strain. Although research suggests that social support and strain are linked to older adults’ cognitive functioning, few studies have considered reciprocal effects or examined potential explanatory mechanisms. This study uses data from the Health and Retirement Study (N = 7,639) to examine longitudinal, bidirectional relationships between social support and strain in relationships with children and cognitive functioning among older U.S. adults. Results from dynamic panel models suggest that higher social support from children predicts modestly better later cognitive functioning and that strain from children is negatively linked to subsequent cognition. Older adults with higher cognitive functioning report less later strain in relationships with children. Depressive symptoms and receipt of children’s help with functional limitations play modest roles in helping to explain associations between social support and strain from children and cognitive functioning.

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社会支持和压力与儿童和老年人认知功能之间的纵向关系研究

对于老年人来说，与子女的关系往往非常重要，这种关系既有社会支持，也有压力。虽然研究表明社会支持和压力与老年人的认知功能有关，但很少有研究考虑到相互影响或研究潜在的解释机制。本研究利用《健康与退休研究》（Health and Retirement Study，N = 7639）的数据，考察了美国老年人在与子女关系中的社会支持和压力与认知功能之间的纵向双向关系。动态面板模型的结果表明，来自子女的社会支持越高，其日后的认知功能就越好，而来自子女的压力则与日后的认知功能呈负相关。认知功能较高的老年人在与子女的关系中报告的后期压力较小。抑郁症状和接受子女在功能限制方面的帮助在解释子女的社会支持和压力与认知功能之间的关系方面作用不大。

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期刊介绍： Journal of Health and Social Behavior is a medical sociology journal that publishes empirical and theoretical articles that apply sociological concepts and methods to the understanding of health and illness and the organization of medicine and health care. Its editorial policy favors manuscripts that are grounded in important theoretical issues in medical sociology or the sociology of mental health and that advance theoretical understanding of the processes by which social factors and human health are inter-related.