International Social Welfare and Health Policy Scholar, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway.
Master of Public Health, The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Int J Aging Hum Dev. 2023 Sep;97(2):202-228. doi: 10.1177/00914150221112281. Epub 2022 Jul 15.
This study aims to contribute to understanding how social networks serve as an intervening pathway leading to socioeconomic health inequality among older adults in Norway. Longitudinal survey data from the second and the third waves of the Norwegian Life Course, Ageing, and Generation Study were used in this paper. Hayes PROCESS was used to estimate the mediating effect of the contact frequency and the support potential of friends on the impact of social-economic position (SEP) at wave 2 on health outcomes at wave 3. The total indirect effect of the income on physical health observed was 0.04. The total indirect effect of the highest level of education attained on physical health observed was 0.12. The result showed a social-economic gradient in health among older adults in Norway where the social network is a crucial pathway via which SEP influences peoples' health.
本研究旨在探讨社交网络如何作为一种中介途径,导致挪威老年人在社会经济健康方面的不平等。本文使用了来自挪威生活历程、老龄化和代际研究第二和第三波的纵向调查数据。Hayes PROCESS 用于估计在第 2 波时社会经济地位(SEP)对第 3 波时健康结果的影响中,朋友的接触频率和支持潜力的中介效应。观察到收入对身体健康的总间接效应为 0.04,观察到最高教育程度对身体健康的总间接效应为 0.12。结果表明,挪威老年人的健康存在社会经济梯度,社交网络是社会经济地位影响人们健康的关键途径。