O'Brien Erica L, Hess Thomas M
Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
GeroPsych (Bern). 2020 Mar;33(1):42-51. doi: 10.1024/1662-9647/a000218. Epub 2020 Feb 26.
This article explores the influence of perceived benefits and costs on willingness to engage in social interactions in 32 young adults aged 20 to 40 years and 38 older adults aged 65 to 85 years. Results showed (1) increases in perceived benefits and importance of each relationship but decreases in perceived costs associated with increases in network centrality, (2) reduced willingness in older adults to engage with social partners for whom perceived costs outweighed benefits, and (3) perceived costs and benefits subsumed the effects of the affective qualities of social interactions. Findings support an analysis of social behavior based on the selective engagement theory (Hess, 2014), with selection effects in willingness to engage in social interactions related to perceived benefits and costs.
本文探讨了感知收益和成本对32名年龄在20至40岁之间的年轻人以及38名年龄在65至85岁之间的老年人参与社交互动意愿的影响。结果显示：（1）随着网络中心性的增加，每种关系的感知收益和重要性增加，但感知成本降低；（2）老年人与那些感知成本超过收益的社交伙伴互动的意愿降低；（3）感知成本和收益包含了社交互动情感特质的影响。研究结果支持基于选择性参与理论（赫斯，2014年）对社会行为的分析，即参与社交互动的意愿中的选择效应与感知收益和成本相关。
