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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Aging and Public Health
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1572044
This article is part of the Research TopicIntegrated Strategies for Lifelong Health: Multidimensional Approaches to Aging and Lifestyle InterventionsView all 12 articles
The Hidden Network: Community Sense, Social Desirability, and Their Protective Influence on Negative Emotions in Aging Populations
Provisionally accepted- 1Department of Marxism Sinicization, School of Marxism, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China
- 2Department of Nursing, First Affiliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning Province, China
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This cross-sectional study investigates the relationships among social capital, social support, community sense, social desirability, and negative emotions in the elderly, as well as the mediating and moderating roles these factors play. A survey was conducted with 904 elderly individuals from Liaoning province, China, using the Geriatric Depression Scale-10 (GDS-10), the Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS), the Brief Sense of Community Scale (BSCS), and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (MCSDS). The results revealed that social capital and social support were significantly negatively correlated with negative emotions, with social support acting as a mediator between social capital and negative emotions. Community sense and social desirability significantly moderated the relationship between social support and negative emotions. The findings suggest that enhancing social capital, social support, community sense, and social desirability can effectively reduce negative emotions in elderly individuals, providing empirical support for mental health interventions.
Keywords: social capital, social support, Community sense, Social Desirability, Negative emotions, Elderly Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale Sense of Community
Received: 06 Feb 2025; Accepted: 08 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Chu, Liu, Qu and Wang. 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: Xiaoxiang Wang, Department of Marxism Sinicization, School of Marxism, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China
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