Gilleard Chris, Hyde Martin, Higgs Paul
Centre for Behavioural and Social Sciences in Medicine, University College London, Charles Bell House, 67-73 Riding House Street, London W1W 7EJ, United Kingdom.
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2007 Jul;62(4):S276-83. doi: 10.1093/geronb/62.4.s276.
We investigated the following question: Would access to and use of domestic information and communication technology affect people's attachment to place in later life?
Drawing upon data on ownership of cell phones and use of Internet/e-mail from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, we measured the association between access to such technology and self-rated attachment to one's neighborhood.
There was a significant negative association between attachment to place and ownership and use of domestic information and communication technology, particularly the Internet. This association remained after taking account of age/cohort differences, as well as the influence of gender, disability, socioeconomic status of the neighborhood, differences in income and educational status, and length of residence in the area.
The results suggest that ownership and use of domestic information and communication technology reduces the sense of attachment to the local neighborhood among individuals 50 and older in England. It does not, however, influence the perceived sense of trust in or perceived friendliness of people in the neighborhood. We suggest that domestic information and communication technology may be more liberating of neighborhood boundedness than destructive of social capital.
我们研究了以下问题：获取和使用家庭信息通信技术会影响人们晚年对居住地的依恋吗？
利用英国老龄化纵向研究中关于手机拥有情况和互联网/电子邮件使用情况的数据，我们测量了获取此类技术与自我评定的对邻里的依恋之间的关联。
对居住地的依恋与家庭信息通信技术的拥有和使用之间存在显著的负相关，尤其是互联网。在考虑年龄/队列差异以及性别、残疾、邻里社会经济地位、收入和教育状况差异以及在该地区的居住时长的影响后，这种关联依然存在。
结果表明，在英国，50岁及以上人群中，家庭信息通信技术的拥有和使用会降低对当地邻里的依恋感。然而，它并不会影响对邻里中人们的信任感知或友好感知。我们认为，家庭信息通信技术可能更多地是解放了邻里界限，而非破坏社会资本。
