农村外出子女通讯联系能改善父母精神健康吗  

Can Rural-urban Migrant Children’s Mobile Communication Improve the Mental Health of Parents

作　　者：张驰 施海波 张崇尚[2] 吕开宇[2] ZHANG Chi;SHI Haibo;ZHANG Chongshang;LYU Kaiyu

机构地区：[1]浙江财经大学公共管理学院,杭州310018 [2]中国农业科学院农业经济与发展研究所,北京100081

出　　处：《农业技术经济》2022年第1期97-113,共17页Journal of Agrotechnical Economics

基　　金：国家自科基金国际合作项目“重大冲击和变化对中国——全球农业影响模拟模型的研究和开发”(编号:71761147004);中国博士后科学基金面上项目“农户贫困动态演化:理论、测量、机制和影响因素研究”(编号:2018M630687);浙江农林大学科研发展基金人才启动项目(编号:2020FR061)。

摘　　要：通讯联系在维系家庭亲情关系中扮演着重要角色,而现代通讯技术逐渐成为代际间沟通的主要方式,可能会对父母的精神生活与福利产生重要影响。本文在农村子女持续外流和现代通讯技术快速发展的背景下,基于中国健康与养老追踪调查(CHARLS)2013年和2015年数据,从理论和实证两方面深入分析农村外出子女通讯联系对父母精神健康的影响。研究表明,外出子女通讯联系能够改善父母精神健康水平,子女通讯联系越频繁,父母精神状态越佳,且结果稳健;同时,外出子女通讯联系对父母精神健康的影响存在显著的性别差异、年龄差异,对于精神疾病易发的农村女性和老年群体而言,上述联系能够显著改善母亲的精神健康,但未显著改善老年父母的精神健康。这意味着,当前嵌入现代通讯技术的"新时代家书"在改善农村父母精神健康方面具有一定积极作用,但对农村老龄群体的作用较为有限。因此,未来农村养老政策制定应关注信息技术变革所引致的家庭养老方式变化,促进家庭养老与社会养老的互补融合,以此有效提升农村老年人群体健康水平。Communication has played an important role in maintaining family relationships.Information communication technology(ICT)is increasingly becoming the main mean of intergenerational communication,which may have an important impact on the parents’spiritual life and welfare.Under the background of mass migration of rural adult children and rapid development of ICT in China,this paper uses the data of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study(CHARLS)in 2013 and 2015 to analyze the impact of migrant children’s mobile communication with parents by ICT on parents’mental health.The results show that children’s mobile communication can improve parents’mental health.The more often children communicate by mobile,the better for the mental health of their parents.After a series of robust tests,the research conclusions remain unchanged.Further analysis results show that the impact of mobile communication varies across parents’gender and age.For rural females and elder who are vulnerable to mental illness,children’s mobile communication can improve mothers’mental health,but can not improve elderly parents’mental health significantly.The advent and wide use of ICT greatly facilitate parents’mental health.However,children’s mobile communication has a limited impact on the elderly parents’mental health.Therefore,rural pension policy,in the future,should pay attention to the children’s support behavior’s change caused by ICT,and promote the integration of family care and social support.

关 键 词：现代通讯技术 农村外出子女 父母精神健康 子女精神赡养 

分 类 号：D669.6[政治法律—政治学]