How does rising housing price affect the health of middle-aged and elderly people? The complementary mediators of social status seeking and competitive saving motive.
PLoS One
; 15(12): e0243982, 2020.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-33320920
Under the backdrop of China's aging population and continuous rising housing price and base on theories pertaining to social status seeking, marriage matching and intergenerational family relationships, use the 2010 and 2014 CFPS national survey micro data, we examine the impact of rising housing price on the health of middle-aged and elderly people and the underlying mechanisms. Rising housing price has a significant negative impact on the health of middle-aged and elderly people, and this effect is also reflected in their physical health, mental acuity and emotional well-being. The internal mechanism is that social status seeking motivation plays a significant mediator role. Through further analysis, we find that competitive saving motive is another intermediate mechanism that causes rising housing price to affect the health of middle-aged and elderly people; it is complementary to the social status seeking motivation. What's more, the mediation effect of the competitive saving motive is notably heterogeneous, as it exists only for middle-aged and elderly people with male or noncollege educated child but does not exist for those with female or college educated child.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Distância Psicológica
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Nível de Saúde
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Custos e Análise de Custo
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Habitação
Tipo de estudo:
Health_economic_evaluation
Limite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
PLoS One
Assunto da revista:
CIENCIA
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MEDICINA
Ano de publicação:
2020
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
China