老年人的学习参与和福利的社会经济地位的不平等
Shu Yee Chin1, Jolin Yi Xin Chua1, Nathan Widjaja1
1School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
概括
具有较低社会经济地位 (SES) 的老年人参与学习的比例较低,但从中获益更多. 这凸显了老年人终身学习机会和成果的差异.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 教育社会学教育的社会学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 晚年学习对于积极老龄化和生活质量 (QoL) 至关重要.
- 研究表明,具有较低社会经济地位 (SES) 的老年人参与学习的比例较低.
- 在老年人中,学习对SES水平在QoL上的差异影响仍未得到充分研究.
研究的目的:
- 研究社会经济地位 (SES) 如何影响参与后期学习.
- 检查学习对生活质量 (QoL) 的好处是否在老年人中因SES而有所不同.
主要方法:
- 分析了来自60-95岁新加坡人 (n=2,502) 全国代表性队列的两个数据浪潮 (2016-17,2019年).
- 统计建模以评估SES指标 (教育,职业声望) 与学习参与之间的关系.
- 调节分析以确定SES是否改变了与工作无关的学习和QoL之间的关联.
主要成果:
- 高等教育和职业声望与在职业和非职业学习中更大的参与有关.
- 与工作无关的学习对生活质量 (QoL) 的积极影响仅在SES较低的老年人中是显著的.
- 低SES的老年人报告说,与高SES的老年人相比,从与工作无关的学习中获得的益处更大.
结论:
- 尽管经历了更大的QOL好处,但低SES的老年人表现出较低的参与率在晚年学习.
- 调查结果强调了老年人群在获得和从终身学习机会中受益方面存在潜在的公平差距.
- 需要促进低SES老年人获得平等学习机会的干预措施,以最大限度地提高活跃老龄化和福祉.
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