Rural active aging as a development strategy: Nexus of physical exercise participation and multidimensional poverty in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aims to assess the intrinsic links between physical exercise and multidimensional poverty among rural older people, focusing on the mediating mechanisms of social and cultural capital, to inform responses to active ageing.

Methods

This study utilized the adult and household databases of the China Household Tracking Survey (CFPS) in 2018 and 2022. Stata17.0 was used to screen and process the data, and the A-F double critical value method was adopted to measure and structurally decompose the multi-dimensional poverty among the elderly of Chinese household farmers. The association between physical exercise participation and multi-dimensional poverty among rural elderly people was estimated using the ordinary Least squares (OLS) method. The mediating effect

SUBMITTER: Xia Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12404369 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature