“老年令我恐惧”：在 COVID-19 之前和期间探索年轻人对衰老的感受。
"Old age scares me": Exploring young adults' feelings about aging before and during COVID-19.
机构信息
Department of Communication, University of Maryland, 2130 Skinner Building, 4300 Chapel Lane, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
Department of Communication, University at Albany, SUNY, USA.
出版信息
J Aging Stud. 2022 Mar;60:100998. doi: 10.1016/j.jaging.2022.100998. Epub 2022 Jan 11.
Negative messages about aging dominate public discourse about the COVID-19 pandemic as older adults have been classified as members of a "vulnerable" population due to their chronological age. To explore young adults' feelings about aging before and after the emergence of COVID-19, we collected 794 qualitative questionnaires during the fall of 2017 and another 463 responses during the fall of 2020. We drew on the concepts of age-based stereotypes and future selves to guide our thematic analysis of the data. Findings captured young adults' feelings about aging at two distinct points in time and demonstrate the complex ways the communication contributed to shifting feelings about aging. In doing so, we highlight the role that portrayals of aging play in shaping young adults' feelings about aging and their perception of their future selves. These findings offer conceptual contributions about communication, context, and aging.
关于衰老的负面信息在 COVID-19 大流行的公共话语中占据主导地位，因为老年人因其年龄而被归类为“脆弱”人群。为了探索 COVID-19 出现前后年轻人对衰老的看法，我们在 2017 年秋季收集了 794 份定性问卷，在 2020 年秋季又收集了 463 份回复。我们借鉴了基于年龄的刻板印象和未来自我的概念来指导我们对数据的主题分析。研究结果捕捉到了年轻人在两个不同时间点对衰老的感受，并展示了这些信息传播方式对衰老感变化的复杂影响。通过这样做，我们强调了对衰老的描绘在塑造年轻人对衰老的感受及其对未来自我的认知方面所起的作用。这些发现为传播、背景和衰老提供了概念贡献。
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