Understanding and Addressing Older Adults' Loneliness: The Social Relationship Expectations Framework.
Understanding and Addressing Older Adults' Loneliness: The Social Relationship Expectations Framework.
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理解和解决老年人的孤独：社会关系期望框架。
DOI：
10.1177/17456916221127218
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发表时间：
2023-07
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Li L
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Akhter-Khan SC;Prina M;Wong GH;Mayston R;Li L
孤独是一种由预期和实际社会关系之间的感知差异导致的体验。虽然这种差异被广泛认为是孤独的“核心机制”，但以前的研究和干预措施并没有充分解决老年人对社会关系的具体期望。为了解决这一差距，并帮助在更广泛的寿命发展理论中对老年人的孤独感进行研究，我们提出了一个理论框架，根据心理学，老年学和人类学的研究，概述了老年人的六个关键社会关系期望：社会联系的可获得性，得到照顾和支持，亲密和理解，享受和共同的兴趣，繁殖力和贡献，被尊重和重视我们进一步认为，完整地理解整个生命周期中的孤独感需要注意环境因素的强大影响（例如，文化，功能限制，社会网络变化）对老年人普遍和特定年龄的关系期望的表达和实现的影响。建议的社会关系期望框架可能会卓有成效地为未来的孤独感研究和干预异质老龄化人口。
Loneliness is an experience resulting from a perceived discrepancy between expected and actual social relationships. Although this discrepancy is widely considered the “core mechanism” of loneliness, previous research and interventions have not sufficiently addressed what older adults specifically expect from their social relationships. To address this gap and to help situate research on older adults’ loneliness within broader life span developmental theories, we propose a theoretical framework that outlines six key social relationship expectations of older adults based on research from psychology, gerontology, and anthropology: availability of social contacts, receiving care and support, intimacy and understanding, enjoyment and shared interests, generativity and contribution, and being respected and valued. We further argue that a complete understanding of loneliness across the life span requires attention to the powerful impacts of contextual factors (e.g., culture, functional limitations, social network changes) on the expression and fulfillment of older adults’ universal and age-specific relationship expectations. The proposed Social Relationship Expectations Framework may fruitfully inform future loneliness research and interventions for a heterogeneous aging population.