Do the Marital Statuses of Adult Offspring Affect Their Parent’s Mental Health? Empirical Evidence from China

Yumiao Zhang () and Wenbin Zang
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Yumiao Zhang: School of Public Administration, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 611130, China
Wenbin Zang: School of Public Administration, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 611130, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 16, 1-18

Abstract: Given the aging population, various issues pertaining to the elderly attract attention, including their mental health. Using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS), and adopting a propensity score matching (PSM) method, this study investigated the impact of offspring’s marital statuses on their elderly parents’ mental health. Parental depression was positively correlated with single and divorced/separated offspring aged 30 and above; this was not the case with widowed children. We then analyzed the heterogeneous influence of offspring’s marital statuses on parents’ mental health based on gender, region, and educational background, further expanding the research.

Keywords: child-parent; marital status; mental health; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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