The relationship between adolescent reading habits and older adult social engagement - A longitudinal cohort analysis.
The relationship between adolescent reading habits and older adult social engagement - A longitudinal cohort analysis.
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青少年阅读习惯与老年人社会参与之间的关系——纵向队列分析。
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10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116174
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2023
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Chapman,BenjaminP
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Kannan,VijiDiane;Peters,Kelly;Chapman,BenjaminP
目标调查青年时期的一个接入点，有可能对晚年的社会参与产生积极的影响。我们的社会自我早在成年之前就开始了，在这个生命阶段，人们面临着社会环境的巨大变化。青春期是社会文化处理的敏感时期，青少年活动有可能影响老年期的社会参与。我们对青春期的阅读进行研究，因为它可以促进社会认知技能，从而促进社会参与。方法我们的主要目标是研究青少年阅读与老年人社会参与之间的关系。我们使用来自 Project Talent 的纵向队列数据、有序逻辑回归以及两波交叉滞后面板模型来分析这种关系。辅助分析检查了青春期和老年期阅读与社会认知之间以及社会认知与社会参与之间公认的关系。结果青少年阅读与老年人与家人和朋友更频繁的社会参与有关。这种关系与老年时期的阅读、青春期的社会参与以及两个人生阶段的社会认知无关。在两波交叉滞后模型中，青少年的社交参与与老年人的阅读无关。阅读与青春期的社会认知呈正相关，但在成年后则不显着。而且，社会认知与青春期和老年期的社会参与呈正相关。美国年轻人和老年人的讨论阅读能力都在下降。美国年轻人的社交活动也比前几十年少了。这些趋势可能会对未来老年人群的社会参与和社会孤立产生不利影响。我们建议继续寻找青年时期的活动和经历，特别是青春期的敏感时期，这些活动和经历可以刺激整个生命历程和老年时期的社会参与。
ObjectivesTo investigate an access point during youth with the potential to have a positive impact on social engagement in later-life. Our social selves begin long before older adulthood, a life-stage during which people face extensive changes to their social milieu. Adolescence is a sensitive period for sociocultural processing and adolescent activities have the potential to impact social engagement in older adulthood. We examine reading since, in adolescence, it promotes social-cognitive skills which facilitate social engagement.MethodsOur main goal was to study the relationship between adolescent reading and older adult social engagement. We used longitudinal cohort data from Project Talent and ordered logistic regression as well as two-wave, cross-lagged panel model to analyze this relationship. Ancillary analyses examined recognized relationships between reading and social-cognition and between social-cognition and social engagement in both adolescence and older adulthood.ResultsAdolescent reading was related to more frequent older adult social engagement with both family and friends. This relationship was independent of reading during older adulthood, social engagement during adolescence, and social-cognition at both life-stages. Adolescent social engagement was not associated with older adult reading in the two-wave, cross-lagged model. Reading was positively related to social-cognition in adolescence, but was insignificant in older adulthood. And, social-cognition was positively related to social engagement in both adolescence and older adulthood.DiscussionReading is declining for both young and older Americans. Young Americans are also socializing less than in previous decades. These trends could have a detrimental influence on social engagement and social isolation in future cohorts of older adults. We recommend continuing to look for activities and experiences during youth, especially the sensitive period of adolescence, that could stimulate social engagement over the life-course and into older adulthood.