了解晚年生活中的孤独感
Oliver Huxhold1, Katherine L Fiori2
1German Centre of Gerontology, Manfred-von-Richthofen-Str 2, D-12101, Berlin, Germany.
Current opinion in psychology
|March 1, 2024
概括
老年人的孤独源于社会关系不符合预期. 适应,比如专注于亲密的信任者,可以悖论地阻碍克服孤独感.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 成年后期的孤独是一个重大的公共卫生问题.
- 了解老年人孤独的原因对于干预至关重要.
- 现有的研究往往忽视了个人和上下文因素的动态相互作用.
研究的目的:
- 概念化生命晚期孤独的病因.
- 探索社会关系和期望如何相互作用以影响孤独.
- 检查不同社会层面在缓解或加剧孤独感方面的作用.
主要方法:
- 概念框架的发展.
- 分析个体和上下文过程之间的动态相互作用.
- 在三个层面检查社会期望:信任者,网络和社区.
主要成果:
- 当社会关系未能满足既定的社会期望时,孤独就会出现.
- 老年人可以通过专注于亲密的信任者来弥补网络损失.
- 这些适应性策略可能会阻碍孤独的解决.
结论:
- 晚年孤独的发展是一个复杂的过程,涉及个人和环境因素.
- 社会期望和社会关系的结构是孤独的关键决定因素.
- 虽然专注于亲密的信任者可能是适应性的,但它可能会在老年人中克服孤独的长期挑战.
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