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Zhi-Wen Wang

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Social participation as a resource-preserving context in later life: social, cognitive and functional pathways to depressive symptoms among older adults in China

Successful ageing involves social engagement, psychological well-being, cognitive health and functional capacity. Social participation may be a modifiable community context for preserving these resources, but pathways linking participation to depressive symptoms remain insufficiently characterized. To exam...

Yu-Fan Yang, Meng-Meng Ji, Meng-Ying Deng et al. · Aging Clinical and Experimen... · 0 citations

Open access Sep 2026

Heterogeneous social participation profiles and socioecological correlates among community-dwelling older adults: a latent profile analysis

Social participation in later life is often summarized using an aggregate score, which may obscure distinct configurations of everyday, social, and volunteering activities. This study aimed to identify latent social participation profiles among community-dwelling older adults and examine their socioecological cor...

Yu-Fan Yang, Wei-Hang Xu, Chun-Ling Jia et al. · BMC Geriatrics · 0 citations

Aug 2026

Factors shaping social participation among community-dwelling older adults in China: A mixed-methods study from the perspectives of older adults and community workers.

OBJECTIVES Guided by the Social Ecological Model (SEM), this study aimed to examine multilevel influences on social participation among community-dwelling older adults from the perspectives of older adults and community workers. METHODS A convergent parallel mixed-methods design was used. The quantitative component i...

Yu-Fan Yang, Wei-Hang Xu, Mingyao Sun et al. · The journals of gerontology.... · 0 citations