Rural active aging as a development strategy: Nexus of physical exercise participation and multidimensional poverty in China

Qifei Xia, Shu Xuan and Guoyou Qin

PLOS ONE, 2025, vol. 20, issue 9, 1-21

Abstract: Background: This study aims to assess the intrinsic links between physical exercise and multidimensional poverty among rural older people, focusing on the mediating mechanisms of social and cultural capital, to inform responses to active ageing. Methods: This study utilized the adult and household databases of the China Household Tracking Survey (CFPS) in 2018 and 2022. Stata17.0 was used to screen and process the data, and the A-F double critical value method was adopted to measure and structurally decompose the multi-dimensional poverty among the elderly of Chinese household farmers. The association between physical exercise participation and multi-dimensional poverty among rural elderly people was estimated using the ordinary Least squares (OLS) method. The mediating effects of social capital and cultural capital were explored by using the stepwise regression method. Finally, the heterogeneous manifestations of the impact of physical exercise participation on multi-dimensional poverty among rural elderly people were investigated by using the grouped regression method. Results: This study found that physical exercise participation has a significant role in reducing multidimensional poverty in old age among family farmers (β = −0.0149, p

Date: 2025
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