Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA.
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2022 Apr 1;77(4):e64-e69. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbab058.
We examined sources of vulnerability and resilience among older adults early in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
We surveyed 235 respondents, 51-95 years old (M = 71.35; SD = 7.39; 74% female), including 2 open-ended questions concerning COVID-19-related difficulties and positive experiences during the past week. Using inductive coding, we found 9 final codes for difficulties and 12 for positives and grouped them into socioecological levels: personal, interpersonal, and societal.
Difficulties were reported by 94% of the sample, while 63% described positives. Difficulties and positive responses were made at all socioecological levels and illustrated a dialectic between personal-level constraints and opportunities, interpersonal-level social isolation and integration, and societal-level outrage, sorrow, and social optimism.
Respondents described sources of vulnerabilities and resilience that supported a socioecological approach to understand resilience during this pandemic. A notable example was resilience derived from witnessing and contributing to the community and social solidarity, highlighting the potential of older adults as resources to their communities during the global pandemic.
我们研究了在 2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行早期，老年人的脆弱性和适应力来源。
我们调查了 235 名年龄在 51-95 岁之间的受访者（M=71.35；SD=7.39；74%为女性），包括两个关于 COVID-19 相关困难和过去一周积极经历的开放性问题。通过归纳编码，我们发现了 9 个困难的最终代码和 12 个积极的代码，并将它们分为社会生态层次：个人、人际和社会。
94%的样本报告了困难，而 63%描述了积极的情况。困难和积极的反应出现在所有社会生态层次上，并说明了个人层次的限制和机会、人际层次的社会隔离和整合以及社会层次的愤怒、悲伤和社会乐观之间的辩证关系。
受访者描述了脆弱性和适应力的来源，这支持了一种社会生态学方法来理解这场大流行期间的适应力。一个值得注意的例子是从目睹和为社区和社会团结做出贡献中获得的适应力，这突显了老年人在全球大流行期间作为社区资源的潜力。
