晚年非正式助人与生活满意度变化

Informal helping is often promoted as a pathway to well-being and later-life learning, yet evidence that taking up helping improves well-being is limited. Using four waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (2011–2018), this study analyzed 17,099 adjacent-wave observations from 8,942 older adults aged 60–100 years who reported no unpaid help to non-coresident relatives, friends, or neighbors at the earlier wave. Newly reported helping (9.2% of observations) was associated with a 0.077-point more favorable change in life satisfaction on a 1–5 scale (95% CI [0.026, 0.127]; 0.0