Do social contacts improve the mental health of middle-aged and older adults in China?

TY - JOUR

T1 - Do social contacts improve the mental health of middle-aged and older adults in China?

AU - Zhou, Yishu

N1 - This paper aims to investigate how social contacts affect middle-aged and older adults' (MOA) mental health, happiness, depression, and loneliness in China. The results show that social relations lead to an improvement of mental health and happiness and relief of depression and loneliness.

PY - 2020/6/5

Y1 - 2020/6/5

UR - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42379-020-00056-4?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst&utm_source=ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AA_en_06082018&ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst_20200605

U2 - 10.1007/s42379-020-00056-4

DO - 10.1007/s42379-020-00056-4

M3 - Article

VL - 4

JO - China Population and Development Studies

JF - China Population and Development Studies

ER -