Department of Sociology, University of Toronto. 725 Spadina Ave., Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 2J4.
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2011 Nov;66(6):795-803. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbr112. Epub 2011 Oct 6.
The overlap between social networks and health represents a key area of research in social gerontology. Set in a continuing care retirement community, this research focuses on how health is related to outgoing and incoming reports of social interaction among residents.
Study participants (n = 123) were given the RAND 36-item Health Survey and asked about their social interaction with other people living at the retirement community. Negative binomial and linear regression analysis was used to assess associations between measures of network centrality and health.
Retirement community residents in better health received more nominations from their peers about general socializing, net of how many ties they themselves reported. The ties received by healthier people, moreover, tended to come from others who were central in the network. Conversely, those in better health reported fewer close ties with their coresidents, net of the alter reports.
Results are interpreted in light of status processes, which emerge in bounded social settings.
社交网络和健康之间的重叠是社会老年学研究的一个关键领域。本研究以持续护理退休社区为背景，重点研究了居民之间的社交互动的外向和内向报告与健康之间的关系。
研究参与者（n=123）接受了 RAND 36 项健康调查，并被问及他们与居住在退休社区的其他人的社交互动情况。使用负二项式和线性回归分析来评估网络中心度测量与健康之间的关联。
在更好的健康状况下，退休社区居民从同龄人那里获得的关于社交活动的提名更多，而不管他们自己报告的联系数量如何。此外，健康状况较好的人收到的联系往往来自网络中处于中心地位的其他人。相反，那些健康状况较好的人在扣除他人的报告后，与核心居民的亲密联系较少。
根据在有限的社会环境中出现的地位过程来解释结果。
