Loneliness in urban neighbourhoods: an Anglo-Dutch comparison
Loneliness in urban neighbourhoods: an Anglo-Dutch comparison
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城市社区的孤独感：英荷两国的比较
DOI：
10.1007/s10433-008-0080-x
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Jenny Jong Gierveld
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作者：
T. Scharf;Jenny Jong Gierveld
英国和荷兰过去的研究表明，孤独感根据老年人居住环境的特点而有很大差异。这就提出了一个问题，即邻里关系对个人晚年社会关系的潜在影响。本文通过对英国和荷兰收集的可比经验数据进行多分类分析，考察了邻里关系对孤独感的影响。英国的数据来源于对英国三个城市贫困社区的501名60岁以上老人的调查。荷兰的数据来自内斯特生活安排和社交网络调查，从居住在11个城市的具有全国代表性的老年人样本中抽取了3508名60岁以上的人作为子样本。这两项调查都纳入了德容·吉尔维尔德的11个项目的孤独感量表。除了邻里特征和健康和社会融入指标外，还制定了八组人的类型学，其中考虑了个人的年龄、性别和伴侣地位。在英国，13%的参与者严重孤独，而在荷兰，这一比例仅为4%。在接受调查的不同社区，英国人的平均孤独感得分差异很大。此外，居民区的评估质量在两国的孤独感方面都有较大程度的差异。
Past studies in the UK and the Netherlands indicate that loneliness varies significantly according to characteristics of older people’s residential environment. This raises questions regarding potential neighbourhood influences on individuals’ social relationships in later life. This article examines neighbourhood influences on loneliness, using multiple classification analysis on comparable empirical data collected in the UK and the Netherlands. UK data arise from a survey of 501 people aged 60+ in deprived neighbourhoods of three English cities. Netherlands data derive from the NESTOR Living Arrangements and Social Network survey, with a sub-sample of 3,508 people aged 60+ drawn from a nationally representative sample of older people, living in 11 municipalities. Both surveys incorporated the 11-item De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale. In addition to neighbourhood characteristics and indicators of health and social embeddedness, a typology of eight groups of persons was developed that accounted for individuals’ age, sex, and partner status. While 13% of participants in the UK were severely lonely, the proportion in the Netherlands was just four per cent. Mean loneliness scores in the UK varied significantly between the neighbourhoods under investigation. Additionally, the evaluated quality of the residential neighbourhood accounted for a relatively large degree of variance in loneliness in both countries.