TITLE:
Statue Quo and Influencing Factors of Loneliness in Widowed Elderly Women in Deyang Community
AUTHORS:
Ruifang Xiang, Dan Li, Xiaoqin Liu
KEYWORDS:
Loneliness, Elderly Women, Widowed Woman, Community
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.13 No.1,
January
27,
2025
ABSTRACT: Objective: To investigate the loneliness status and influencing factors of widowed elderly women in Deyang community. Method: From September to October, 2023, we investigated the loneliness of 80 elderly widowed women who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria in Deyang community. The survey tool is UCLA scale. Frequency statistics, chi-square test and logistic regression were used to analyze the current situation and influencing factors. Result: 77 valid questionnaires were collected, with an effective recovery rate of 96.25%. The total score of UCLA is (46.56 ± 6.68), and more than 72.73% of the subjects scored more than 43 points in UCLA. Single-factor analysis showed that there were significant differences in loneliness scores of widowed elderly women with different age, hobbies, children’s financial support and neighborhood relations. Logistic regression analysis showed that younger and better neighborhood relations are the protective factors for loneliness. Conclusion: Older widowed women generally have a strong sense of loneliness. The older they are and the worse their neighborhood relationship, the stronger their sense of loneliness is.