弹性和社会经济地位预测了老年人在COVID中找到一个银线吗?
Jocelyn Wilder1, Diane S Lauderdale2, Louise Hawkley1
1NORC at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Innovation in aging
|September 18, 2023
概括
老年人的高等教育水平在COVID-19大流行期间预测了积极的生活变化. 这表明,教育可能有助于应对挑战,改善生活前景.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- COVID-19 疫情带来了前所未有的身体,精神和经济挑战.
- 尽管存在广泛的困难,但一些老年人报告说,他们的生活发生了积极的变化.
- 了解这些积极变化的预测因素对于支持老龄化人口至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查疫情前的弹性,教育或收入是否预测了老年人在COVID-19大流行期间报告的积极生活变化.
- 为了确定与流行病期间观察到的特定积极变化相关的人口因素.
主要方法:
- 利用了来自国家社会生活,健康和衰老项目 (NSHAP) COVID-19辅助研究的数据 (N = 2,650).
- 员工回归分析,以评估弹性,教育和收入与报告积极变化的关联.
- 主题编码的开放式响应来分类特定的积极变化.
主要成果:
- 与没有高中学位的人相比,拥有副学士学位的老年人报告积极变化的可能性是2.6倍,拥有学士学位或更高学位的老年人报告积极变化的可能性是4.7倍.
- 性和收入与报告的积极变化没有明显的关联.
- 发现的积极变化包括精神上的提高,家庭组织,改善的卫生,和更多的优质时间与他人.
结论:
- 更高的教育水平与老年人在COVID-19大流行期间报告积极的生活变化有显著的关联.
- 教育成就似乎为老年人提供了适应性策略,以重新定义挑战,并在逆境中找到积极的方面.
- 调查结果强调了教育在重大社会动荡期间作为保护老年人福祉的保护因素的作用.
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