A Study On The Influencing Factors Of Subjective Well-being Of The Elderly In Rural Areas Of Shaanxi Province

Nowadays,the degree of aging is getting deeper and deeper.There are some problems such as "Aging Before Getting Rich" and "Aging Before Getting Ready" in China.These problems make some elderly people unable to live happily in later years.Therefore,the elderly’s well-being has become the focus of scholars’attention,and improving the elderly’s well-being has also become a serious challenge in China.In recent years,researchers have proposed that the subjective well-being of the rural elderly in China is lower than that of the urban elderly,but most studies take the urban elderly as the research object of the subjective well-being,and few studies have focused on the subjective well-being of the rural elderly.The research on the influencing factors of the rural elderly’s subjective well-being can inspire the society to pay attention to the material and spiritual needs of the rural elderly,improve the rural elderly’s subjective well-being and provide countermeasures and suggestions for the government to improve the pension policy.This paper used the methods of literature analysis and empirical research,and selected the sample data and related issues of the elderly in rural areas of Shaanxi Province in the original questionnaire based on the 2015 national tracking survey data of CHARLS.This paper selected the demographic characteristics,the health status,the intergenerational relationship,the economic status,the social factors and the subjective well-being in two dimensions of the overall well-being and the emotional well-being.This paper used analysis on the overall status of subjective well-being,cross-tabular analysis of subjective well-being and influencing factors,basic regression analysis and marginal effect analysis to explore the impact of the influencing factors on the subjective well-being of rural elderly in Shaanxi Province,and propose countermeasures to improve the subjective well-being of rural elderly in Shaanxi Province.This article consists of six parts,the first chapter is the introduction,the second chapter is the literature review and basic theory,the third chapter is the research design and descriptive statistics,the fourth chapter is the empirical analysis of the influential factors of the subjective well-being of the rural elderly in Shaanxi Province,the fifth chapter is the countermeasures and suggestions to improve the subjective well-being of the rural elderly in Shaanxi Province and the last chapter is the research conclusions and prospects.The main conclusions of this paper are as follows:the level of subjective well-being of the rural elderly in Shaanxi Province is relatively high,but the individual differences are relatively large.The subjective well-being of rural elderly in Shaanxi Province needs to be highly concerned.There are differences in the values of the overall well-being and the emotional well-being in different dimensions of the influencing factors in the demographic characteristics,the health status,the intergenerational relationship,the economic and the social factor.The influencing factors in the demographic characteristics,the health status,the intergenerational relationship,the economic status and the social factor can affect the subjective well-being of rural elderly in Shaanxi Province.The significant influential factors of the marginal effect are the physical pain,the difficulty in daily life,whether to take care of grandchildren,the self-assessed health,the education,the marital status,whether to have pension insurance,the age,the social participation frequency,whether to have medical insurance and the gender.The government should improve the rural endowment insurance system,improve the the medical conditions for the rural elderly,provide skills training opportunities and suitable positions for rural elderly.Communities should improve medical care in rural communities,strengthen the construction of facilities and services for the elderly in rural communities,regularly organize rural community activities.Children should encourage widowed elderly to seek spouse again and pay attention to the psychological status of women and younger elderly.The elderly should enhance their awareness of participation in social activities,cultivate a positive and optimistic attitude towards life and take proper care of their grandchildren.