ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Aging and Public Health
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1647544
This article is part of the Research TopicInnovative Models for Community Health: Integrative Approaches to Public Health and WellnessView all 9 articles
Migrant older adults' perception of social support on subjective well-being: a mediating role of psychological resilience
Provisionally accepted
Yuxi Liu1,2*
Qian Liu1
Qihui Gan1Jia Li1
Xianglei Zhu1Ruiming Liu1Jie Huang1
Chonghua Wan1*Qikang Chen2*- 1Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China
- 2Shunde Women and Children’s Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, foshan, China
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With the acceleration of urbanisation in China, there are a growing number of migrant older adults, and the mental health problems of this group require prompt attention. This research conducted a questionnaire survey of 470 migrant older adults in various communities of Dongguan, and employed an independent sample t-test, Pearson correlation analysis, and stepwise multiple regression to analyse the data to explore the relationship between perceived social support, resilience and subjective well-being (SWB). The findings indicated that migrant older adults' perceived social support is positively correlated with resilience (r=0.827, p<0.05) and SWB (r=0.645, p<0.05), and resilience and SWB are also positively correlated (r=0.698, p<0.05). The SWB of migrant older adults can be predicted from their perceived social support (β=0.182, p<0.05) and resilience (β=0.281, p<0.05). Moreover, resilience partially plays a mediating role between the perception of social support and SWB, and the mediating effect accounts for 60.8 percent of the total effect. To improve the SWB of the migrant older adults, it is important to address the psychological potential of the migrant older adults from the perspective of positive psychology, and help them improve their positive psychological quality and resilience.
Keywords: Migrant older adults, Perception of social support, SWB, resilience, Mediating effect
Received: 16 Jun 2025; Accepted: 03 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Liu, Liu, Gan, Li, Zhu, Liu, Huang, Wan and Chen. 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:
Yuxi Liu, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China
Chonghua Wan, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China
Qikang Chen, Shunde Women and Children’s Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, foshan, China
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