College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.
Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali, Università Ca' Foscari, Dorsoduro 3246, 30123 Venice, Italy.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Mar 28;19(7):4010. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19074010.
Adolescents' opportunities to benefit from the life wisdom of older persons are very limited. To address this issue, we designed and tested the Building a Community Legacy Together (BCLT) program based on research on the benefits of older people's wisdom for youth development. In the intervention, the youth participants were trained prior to conducting interviews with older persons regarding their advice for living. The youth participants analyzed the information obtained and presented a summary report to the community. The participants were 93 middle and high school youth who were randomly assigned to the treatment condition with the BCLT program ( = 47) or to the control condition ( = 46). The outcome measures included sense of purpose, self-esteem, attitudes toward older people, confidence interacting with older people, and interest in working with older people. Quantitative and qualitative data were also collected regarding the subjective assessments of the program's success. We found significant positive effects for the BCLT participants regarding their sense of purpose in life, attitudes toward older people, comfort interacting with older people, and interest in working with older people. The subjective assessments of the participants were overwhelmingly positive. The findings indicate that BCLT had positive effects for the youth participants and support the further development and testing of wisdom-sharing intergenerational programs.
青少年从老年人的生活智慧中受益的机会非常有限。为了解决这个问题，我们根据老年人的智慧对青年发展有益的研究，设计并测试了“共同建立社区遗产”（BCLT）项目。在干预中，青年参与者在与老年人进行有关生活建议的访谈之前接受了培训。青年参与者分析了所获得的信息，并向社区提交了一份总结报告。参与者是 93 名中学生和高中生，他们被随机分配到接受 BCLT 项目（n=47）或对照组（n=46）的治疗条件。结果测量包括目标感、自尊心、对老年人的态度、与老年人互动的信心以及与老年人合作的兴趣。还收集了关于该项目成功的主观评估的定量和定性数据。我们发现，BCLT 项目对参与者的生活目标感、对老年人的态度、与老年人互动的舒适度以及与老年人合作的兴趣都有显著的积极影响。参与者的主观评估非常积极。研究结果表明，BCLT 对青年参与者产生了积极影响，并支持进一步开发和测试智慧分享代际项目。
