为探讨农村老人的婚姻家庭以及丧偶老人的心理状态,我们于1988年9～11月在湖北荆门农村作了一次调查。现将调查结果报告如下:调查对象和方法选择当地山区一个乡,丘陵一个乡和平原二个乡作为调查点采取整群抽样方法逐村逐户调查四个乡,总人口为19827人,以60岁及以上老人为对象,共调查老人1722人。由老人自述婚姻,夫妻关系等情况丧偶者则详询丧偶时间,并用当地通俗 In order to explore the rural elderly people’s marriage and family as well as the psychological status of widowed elderly, we conducted a survey in Jingmen, Hubei Province from September to November 1988. The survey results are reported as follows: The survey respondents and methods Select a local mountainous area, a township and a plain hilly two villages as a survey point to take a cluster sampling method to survey four villages by village, with a total population of 19827 people to 60 Aged over the age of the object, a total of 1722 elderly people surveyed. Self-reported by the elderly marriage, marital relationship and other widowers were detained widowed time, and use the local popular