Weissberger Gali H
Department of Social and Health Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2024 Sep 17;14(9):830. doi: 10.3390/bs14090830.
Social support and loneliness have been identified as important correlates of financial exploitation vulnerability (FEV) in older adults. However, the potential combined effect of these social factors on FEV remains unclear. Moreover, given that social support and loneliness may become more important as age increases, age may have a moderating effect on the loneliness-social support interaction. Participants were 342 community-living Israeli older adults aged 60 or over ( age = 73.37, = 7.82, 69.1% female) who responded to questionnaires assessing FEV (Financial Exploitation Vulnerability Scale), perceived social support (The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support), loneliness (UCLA Three-item Loneliness Scale), and sociodemographic characteristics. Two hierarchical linear regression models covarying for demographic variables examined study hypotheses. In a first model, a significant interaction between social support and loneliness was discovered such that high levels of perceived social support attenuated the positive loneliness-FEV association. In a second model, a significant three-way interaction between social support, loneliness, and age was discovered. Probing the interaction revealed that the attenuating effect of social support on the loneliness-FEV link increased with increasing age. Findings suggest that effects of social factors on FEV may interact with each other and with age to predict FEV, and provide insights into when social support may be most relevant in mitigating FEV.
社会支持和孤独感已被确认为老年人经济剥削易感性（FEV）的重要相关因素。然而，这些社会因素对FEV的潜在综合影响仍不明确。此外，鉴于随着年龄增长，社会支持和孤独感可能变得更加重要，年龄可能对孤独感与社会支持的相互作用具有调节作用。研究参与者为342名年龄在60岁及以上的以色列社区老年人（年龄 = 73.37，标准差 = 7.82，女性占69.1%），他们对评估FEV（经济剥削易感性量表）、感知社会支持（多维感知社会支持量表）、孤独感（加州大学洛杉矶分校三项孤独感量表）以及社会人口学特征的问卷进行了作答。两个对人口统计学变量进行协变量控制的分层线性回归模型检验了研究假设。在第一个模型中，发现社会支持与孤独感之间存在显著的相互作用，即高水平的感知社会支持减弱了孤独感与FEV之间的正向关联。在第二个模型中，发现社会支持、孤独感和年龄之间存在显著的三向相互作用。对该相互作用进行探究后发现，社会支持对孤独感与FEV之间联系的减弱作用随着年龄增长而增强。研究结果表明，社会因素对FEV的影响可能会相互作用，并与年龄共同作用来预测FEV，同时也为社会支持在减轻FEV方面何时最为相关提供了见解。
