Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
J Community Psychol. 2020 Mar;48(2):437-447. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22268. Epub 2019 Oct 22.
This study examined the contribution of the social network to one's sense of belonging to the community (SCB) in two different long-term care settings: Continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) and adult day care centers (ADCCs).
Overall, 245 respondents participated in both waves of the study that were spaced about 1 year apart.
Results show that constraint in the social network (e.g., being socially invested in a single group of interconnected ties) is particularly detrimental for CCRC residents, but not for ADCC participants. Betweenness, defined as the number of shortest paths that pass through the focal person, was not significantly related to SCB. In addition, the size of the egocentric network, obtained through a name generator of a list of all potentially meaningful individuals identified by respondents, was directly correlated with SCB at follow-up.
The findings are discussed in light of differences between the two long-term care settings and the different social network indicators examined in this study.
本研究考察了社会网络对个人社区归属感（SCB）的贡献，分别在两种不同的长期护理环境中进行了研究：持续护理退休社区（CCRCs）和成人日间护理中心（ADCCs）。
共有 245 名受访者参加了本研究的两次调查，两次调查时间间隔约为 1 年。
结果表明，社会网络的约束（例如，在单一的相互关联的群体中具有社会投资）对 CCRC 居民特别不利，但对 ADCC 参与者没有影响。中介中心性（定义为通过焦点人物的最短路径数）与 SCB 无显著相关。此外，通过受访者列出的所有潜在有意义的个体的名称生成器获得的自我中心网络的大小与随访时的 SCB 直接相关。
本研究结果结合了两种长期护理环境的差异，以及本研究中不同的社会网络指标进行了讨论。
