| In recent years,the problem of "aging" has become a hot spot of social concern.It is the common pursuit of society that how to make the elderly have a secure life and live a happy old age.Social well-being is another research perspective reflecting happiness,which emphasizes paying attention to individual happiness from the social level and promoting the social happiness of the elderly is conducive to social harmony and stability.Good emotion regulation can help individuals keep positive emotions,avoid and alleviate negative emotions,and good emotional experience is usually an important predictor of happiness.Exploring the relationship between emotional regulation and social well-being of the elderly can help us understand the internal factors that affect the happiness of the elderly.It is of great significance to help the elderly get more positive psychological adjustment and form a more positive attitude towards life.Therefore,this study explores the status quo of social well-being of the elderly and its relationship with emotional regulation through different research methods.In the first study,more than 300 elderly people aged 60 to 85 in Chongqing were investigated by questionnaire and Social Happiness Scale to understand their current situation of social happiness.In the second study,more than 300 elderly people in Chongqing community were investigated through Social Support Rating Scale,Social Happiness Scale and Emotional Adjustment Strategy Questionnaire,and the factors related to social happiness of the elderly were further discussed and the intermediary model affecting social happiness was constructed.In the third study,the influence of cognitive reappraisal on the social well-being of the elderly was discussed by experimental method.The control group of experimental group was designed with pre-test and post-test.Fifteen elderly people rated their subjective emotions after adopting cognitive reappraisal strategy for negative pictures,and another 15 elderly people rated their emotional pleasure arousal after simply watching negative pictures.All 30 elderly people completed the Emotional Adjustment Strategy Questionnaire and completed the Social Well-being Scale before and after the experiment.The results of this study are as follows:(1)In the social well-being of the elderly,the social realization dimension scores the highest,the social harmony dimension scores the lowest,and the other four dimensions are all above the median(median =4 points).The social well-being of the elderly is at the upper-middle level,and there are significant differences in gender,whether the spouse is alive,whether living with children,where the family lives,whether there is a pension and culture.(2)There is a significant positive correlation between social happiness,social support and emotional regulation of the elderly,and the cognitive reappraisal strategy in emotional regulation has a significant positive prediction effect on social happiness,and plays a partial intermediary role in the influence of social support on social happiness;(3)Compared with the simple viewing group,the cognitive reappraisal group has higher pleasure and lower arousal.The social well-being of cognitive reappraisal group was significantly greater than that of pre-test,and the social well-being of cognitive reappraisal group was significantly greater than that of simple observation group in post-test results.Cognitive reappraisal is positively correlated with social happiness and pleasure.Conclusion: The above results show that the social happiness of the elderly is at a medium level,and the elderly with better living conditions have higher social happiness,and the elderly with family support have higher social happiness.Cognitive reappraisal in emotion regulation strategies can affect the social happiness of the elderly either indirectly or directly.The above results and conclusions have implications for the promotion of social well-being and emotional regulation of the elderly. |
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