Social inequality in the later life: cross-national comparison of quality of life.
Social inequality in the later life: cross-national comparison of quality of life.
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DOI：
10.1007/s10433-004-0001-6
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发表时间：
2004-12-01
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3.8
通讯作者：
Tesch-Romer, Clemens
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作者：
Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas;von Kondratowitz, Hans-Joachim;Tesch-Romer, Clemens
本文从国际比较和生命历程的角度分析了老年人的生活质量和不平等。生活质量被视为生活中机会不平等的结果。我们区分生活质量的整体和特定领域的表达，这使我们能够分析整体生活质量的决定因素及其在生命过程中的发展。所提供的数据来自“绿洲-老年和自治：服务系统的作用和代际家庭团结”研究项目。该数据集基于挪威、英国、德国、西班牙和以色列（n= 6，106）城市人口（25-102岁）的年龄分层随机样本。随着年龄的增长，生活质量的平均水平下降，差异增加。随着年龄的增长，身体健康对整体生活质量的影响增加，而其他领域的预测能力下降。结果支持分化假说和年龄依赖假说。对于这两个方面，国际比较显示不同社会的结果相似。这些统一的年龄趋势在现代欧洲社会指出，社会嵌入的重要性有限，并支持年龄组差异的解释是生命历程的影响。
This paper analyses quality of life and inequality in old age in an international comparative and a life course perspective. Quality of life is seen as an outcome of unequal chances in life. We distinguish between overall and domain specific expressions of quality of life which allows us to analyse the determinants of overall quality of life and their development over the life course. The data presented come from the research project "OASIS - Old Age and Autonomy: The Role of Service Systems and Intergenerational Family Solidarity". This data set is based on an age stratified random sample of the urban population (25-102 years) in Norway, England, Germany, Spain, and Israel (n=6,106). With advancing age, there are decreasing mean levels and increasing variation of quality of life. With age, the impact of physical health on overall quality of life increases, while the predictive power of other domains decreases. The results support the hypothesis of differentiation as well as the age-dependency hypothesis. For both these both aspects, international comparisons show similar results in different societies. These uniform age tendencies in modern European societies point to a limited importance of societal embeddedness and support the interpretation of age group differences as being life course effects.