Nyqvist Fredrica, Serrat Rodrigo, Nygård Mikael, Näsman Marina
Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies, Social Policy, Åbo Akademi University, Vaasa, Finland.
Department of Cognition, Development, and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Eur J Ageing. 2024 Oct 14;21(1):30. doi: 10.1007/s10433-024-00825-x.
This study explored the role of social capital for non-institutionalised and institutionalised political participation among older adults compared to younger age groups using European Quality of Life Survey data (EQLS) from 2016 and 33 countries (n = 36,908). Multilevel logistic regression analysis was employed to assess the association between individual- and country-level social capital and political participation. Findings revealed that, at the individual level, active associational engagement was positively related to both forms of political participation, while social trust and political trust were linked only to non-institutionalised participation-higher social trust and lower political trust were associated with a greater likelihood of participation. Country-level associational engagement was related to non-institutionalised political participation and country-level political trust with institutionalised participation. For older adults, active associational engagement had stronger individual and contextual effects on non-institutionalised political participation. These results enrich our understanding of political engagement in later life and highlight the unexplored potential for civic involvement among older adults.
本研究利用2016年来自33个国家（n = 36,908）的欧洲生活质量调查数据（EQLS），探讨了与较年轻年龄组相比，社会资本在老年人非制度化和制度化政治参与中的作用。采用多层次逻辑回归分析来评估个人层面和国家层面的社会资本与政治参与之间的关联。研究结果显示，在个人层面，积极参与社团活动与两种形式的政治参与均呈正相关，而社会信任和政治信任仅与非制度化参与相关——较高的社会信任和较低的政治信任与更高的参与可能性相关。国家层面的社团参与与非制度化政治参与相关，国家层面的政治信任与制度化参与相关。对于老年人而言，积极参与社团活动对非制度化政治参与具有更强的个人和背景效应。这些结果丰富了我们对晚年政治参与的理解，并突出了老年人公民参与中尚未被探索的潜力。
