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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Aging and Public Health
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1441703

Longitudinal Associations Between Leisure Activities and Subjective Happiness Among Middle-aged and Elderly People in China: National Cohort Study

Provisionally accepted
Chengkai Feng Chengkai Feng Zhenguo Shi Zhenguo Shi *Yuge Tian Yuge Tian Chao Ma Chao Ma Qian Sun Qian Sun
  • School of Physical Education, Shandong University, Jinan, China

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    Leisure activities serve as key measures to enhance the subjective happiness of middle-aged and elderly individuals and to positively address the challenges of an aging society; however, the trajectory of changes in their participation in leisure activities and how these changes relate to shifts in subjective happiness have not been adequately explored.This study selected data from the China Health and Aging Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), which included a total of 5,190 middle-aged and elderly people. Linear and nonlinear latent growth models, parallel latent growth models and cross-lagged models were constructed to investigate the influence and lagged relationship between the trajectory of changes in the level of participation in leisure activities on the trajectory of changes in the subjective well-being of middle-aged and elderly people.The initial level of physical activity participation of middle-aged and elderly people significantly predicted the initial level (β=1. 203, p<0.001) and rate of change

    Keywords: Middle-aged and elderly people, leisure activity, physical activity, social activity, subjective happiness

    Received: 04 Jun 2024; Accepted: 03 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Feng, Shi, Tian, Ma and Sun. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Zhenguo Shi, School of Physical Education, Shandong University, Jinan, China

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