Health, Security and Participation: A Structural Relationship Modeling among the Three Pillars of Active Ageing in China

Yinan Yang, Yingying Meng and Pengtao Dong
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Yinan Yang: School of Public Administration, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
Yingying Meng: Centre for Social Security Studies, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Pengtao Dong: Policy Research Department, China National Committee on Ageing, Beijing 100011, China

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 19, 1-15

Abstract: This paper explores and tests the impact of health and security on the participation of Chinese older people using data from the China Longitudinal Ageing Social Survey (CLASS) in 2014. Based on the framework of Active Ageing, the exogenous latent variables “health” and “security” are assumed to directly affect the endogenous latent variable “participation”, and indirectly affect it via mediating the function of “willingness”. The estimation results of the structural equation model show that health has a significant positive impact, while security has a significant negative impact on participation. In addition, health and security can significantly enhance the willingness of older people to participate. After the opposite effects of health and security are offset, their net effect on participation is generally negative. According to these empirical results, this paper concludes that the optimization of health coupled with the moderation of security level is more beneficial for promoting the participation of older people.

Keywords: health; Healthy Ageing; latent variable; structural equation modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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