监禁后的社会脆弱性:分析老年人的社交网络,社会融合和孤独感
Kenzie Latham-Mintus1, Melissa Garrido2, Elizabeth Nelson3
1Department of Sociology, Indiana University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
The Gerontologist
|April 15, 2025
概括
过去的监禁显著增加了老年人的社会隔离和孤独感. 需要采取干预措施,以改善这一弱势群体的社会融合和福祉.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 犯罪学 犯罪学
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
背景情况:
- 过去的监禁是一个重要的生命事件,具有潜在的长期社会后果.
- 老年人代表着一个日益增长的人口群体,面临着独特的社会挑战.
研究的目的:
- 调查监禁史对老年人社会关系的质量和数量的影响.
- 探索先前监禁与社会隔离,孤独和晚年社会融合之间的关联.
主要方法:
- 从健康和退休研究 (HRS) 中对13,023名老年人 (50岁以上) 的横截面分析.
- 用多变量后勤和线性回归模型分析了自我报告的监禁历史.
- 对人口统计因素进行控制的模型,以评估缺乏亲密关系,低社会融合和高孤独率的概率.
主要成果:
- 曾经被监禁的人 (7.2%) 报告说,他们的社会关系明显较差.
- 观察到更高的未婚率,更低的配偶亲密度,以及与孩子,家人和朋友的关系较少.
- 低社会参与,低凝聚力和高孤独的可能性增加与先前的监禁有关.
结论:
- 监禁史与老年人社会隔离和孤独感的增加有关.
- 这种人群经历了显著的社会脆弱性,突出了有针对性的支持的需要.
- 旨在加强社会融合和福祉的干预措施对于具有刑事司法历史的老年人至关重要.
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