The older, the lonelier? Risk factors for social loneliness in old age
The older, the lonelier? Risk factors for social loneliness in old age
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DOI：
10.1017/s0144686x10000292
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发表时间：
2010-10-01
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2.5
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Heylen, Leen
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作者：
Heylen, Leen
孤独通常与年老有关，但许多研究表明，这种关系并不简单。本文旨在更好地了解社会隔离对老年人孤独感的影响，通过建立社会和情感孤独之间的理论和实际区别。社交孤独是指缺乏社会融合的感觉;情感孤独出现在没有依恋对象的情况下。本文的重点是社会孤独感，有两个目标，首先是解开的直接和中间的影响的数量和质量的社会关系在老年社会孤独感，第二，检测群体的社会孤独感的风险，通过识别个人特征对应的关系赤字，从而间接增加社会孤独感的风险。对2000年进行的比利时家庭小组研究中抽取的1 414名年龄在55岁或55岁以上的受访者的数据进行了分析。研究结果证实，通过分解年龄和其他背景特征之间的相互关系，一方面，社会关系特征，另一方面，作为社会孤独感的间接和直接预测因子，可以提高理解。一般来说，这种方法有助于正确识别老年人面临社会孤独风险的群体。
Loneliness is often associated with old age, but many studies have shown that the relationship is not straightforward. This paper seeks a better understanding of the impact of social isolation on feelings of loneliness among older people, by building on the theoretical and actual distinction between social and emotional loneliness. Social loneliness refers to a lack of feelings of social integration; emotional loneliness emerges in the absence of an attachment figure. This paper focuses on social loneliness and has two aims, first to disentangle the direct and intermediate effects of both the number and the quality of social relationships on social loneliness in old age, and second to detect the groups at risk of social loneliness by identifying which personal features correspond with which relational deficits and therefore indirectly increase the risk on social loneliness. Data are analysed for a sample of 1,414 respondents aged 55 or more years drawn from the Panel Study of Belgian Households conducted in 2000. The results confirm that improved understanding is gained by decomposing the interrelation between age and other background features, on the one hand, and the social relational features, on the other, as indirect and direct predictors of social loneliness. Generally, this approach promotes a correct identification of the groups at risk of social loneliness in old age.