Leisure participation and subjective well-being: Exploring gender differences among elderly in Shanghai, China.

Objectives: To explore the association between leisure participation and subjective well-being and the role gender in this issue among elderly Chinese in Shanghai, China.

Methods: Principal components analysis and logistic regressions are used to analyze the cross-sectional data of the 2013 Shanghai Elderly Life and Opinion Survey that contains 2884 respondents (60+ with a mean age of 72.6) recruited from a multistage cluster sampling design.