Zhou Yue, Ma Menghe, Sun Sheng
Department of Sociology, School of Law, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.
Front Public Health. 2024 Nov 21;12:1488356. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1488356. eCollection 2024.
This study aims to examine the impact of various patterns of social participation on social adaptation among retired Tibetan immigrant older adults, as well as the mediating role of institutional capital in this relationship.
A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Sichuan Province, China, involving 700 older adults who immigrated to Sichuan after retiring from Tibet. After excluding invalid samples, 501 were retained for the final analysis. Distinct patterns of social participation were identified using latent class analysis (LCA), and multiple regression models were employed to analyze the mediating role of institutional capital in the relationship between social participation patterns and social adaptation.
The study revealed four distinct patterns of social participation among the participants: full low-level participation, personal relationship-centric participation, social relevance-oriented participation, and balanced active participation. Institutional capital was found to play both a partial and a full mediating role in the relationship between social participation patterns and social adaptation.
These findings suggest that the social participation of retired immigrant seniors is influenced by the combined effects of role change, spatial transition, and aging, highlighting the urgent need to identify alternatives prior to integration into the local community to facilitate a smoother adaptation to life in their new environment.
本研究旨在探讨不同社会参与模式对退休藏族移民老年人社会适应的影响，以及制度资本在这种关系中的中介作用。
在中国四川省进行了一项横断面调查，涉及700名从西藏退休后移民到四川的老年人。排除无效样本后，最终保留501个样本进行分析。使用潜在类别分析（LCA）确定不同的社会参与模式，并采用多元回归模型分析制度资本在社会参与模式与社会适应关系中的中介作用。
研究揭示了参与者中四种不同的社会参与模式：完全低水平参与、以人际关系为中心的参与、以社会相关性为导向的参与和平衡积极参与。研究发现制度资本在社会参与模式与社会适应的关系中既起到部分中介作用，也起到完全中介作用。
这些发现表明，退休移民老年人的社会参与受到角色变化、空间转移和衰老等多种因素的综合影响，凸显了在融入当地社区之前寻找替代方式以促进更顺利适应新环境生活的迫切需求。
