Research On Relationship Among Need, Socitey Supports, Mental Healthy For The Urban Lower-Age Senior Citizen In The City

China has ushered in an aging society. Aging problems have brought great pressure on the social economic development. It is no doubt that the low age senior citizen has taken up great proportion in the senior citizen as a whole. With the development of material and cultural life, the needs of the senior citizen are versitile.How to meet their needs, create actively conditions and let them live a long life is a very important research issue. This study could be helpful for the policy-maker. The present has great theoritical and pratical meanings.From the perspective of low age senior citizen in the city, the present study conducted a series of interviews and questionnaires, making it clear that what the need structure and social support structure of the low age senior citizen in the city were. The author also compiled the Urban Low Age Senior Citizen Need Questionnaire and the Urban Low Age Senior Citizen Social Support Questionnaire. The questionnaires were used to investigate the current situation of the Urban Low Age Senior Citizen. The relationship between the senior sitizen's needs social support and mental health were also investigated.The present study found that there were 7 dimensions for the senior citizen need structure and four dimensions for the social support structure. Namely, the need structure included interpersonal social intercourse need, economy need, love needs, cognitive need, value need and health need. Social support dimensions included care support, love support,extension support and direction support etc. By the item analyses, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and reliability test, the two questionnaires have a good structure. It is proved that all indicators of the two questionnaires were up to the standard of the psychological testing requirements.The present study described the senior citizen life quantitatively in terms of 11 personal information, life well-being, need, social support. The following items are ranked:life well-being, need, and all aspects of social support. Some suggestions are made in terms of meeting the needs of the senior citizens in the city. In the research of the relationship among the different dimensions of need, social support and mental health, the present study investigated that what kind relationship existed among the needs satisfaction situation, the social support and mental health. The result showed that the three variables were co-related. Both the needs satisfaction situation and the social support can influence the mental health.The results further showed that interpersonal need satisfaction played partial intermediting role; interpersonal needs satisfaction, affection satisfaction and cognitive need satisfaction and value need satisfaction were intermediating partly the direction support and mental health. From the perspective of theory,the research of the relationship among the needs satisfaction situation, the social support and mental health was the pioneer study on the needs of senior citizen in China, enriched the theories of senior citizen's mental health and clinical intervention. From the perspective of practice, the present provided a measuring tool to understand the senior citizen needs, put forward useful suggestions. The present study is also a window on to see senior people's mental health, and pave the way for seting up the social support network for the low age senior citizen in the city.