Sherman S R, Ward R A, LaGory M
J Gerontol. 1985 Jan;40(1):102-9. doi: 10.1093/geronj/40.1.102.
In order to test hypotheses regarding effects of age concentration upon socialization and aging group consciousness, 1,185 persons 60 years of age and over living in areas representing low, average, and high concentrations of older persons were interviewed. Results indicated that age concentration was associated with knowledge of services and with age of persons in formal and informal neighborhood networks but was not related to attitude toward older persons in the abstract, to own age identification, to associational preference, or to taking political action. It appears that age concentration influences access to, more than choice of age peers. Both socialization and aging group consciousness are associated with age, health and socioeconomic status. It may be concluded that the ecological variable of age concentration in the range encountered by most older persons has only limited effects.
为了检验关于年龄集中对社会化和老年群体意识影响的假设，我们对居住在老年人低、中、高集中地区的1185名60岁及以上的人进行了访谈。结果表明，年龄集中与服务知识以及正式和非正式邻里网络中的人的年龄有关，但与对老年人的抽象态度、自我年龄认同、社团偏好或采取政治行动无关。看来，年龄集中对接触同龄人的影响大于对同龄人选择的影响。社会化和老年群体意识都与年龄、健康和社会经济地位有关。可以得出结论，大多数老年人所经历范围内的年龄集中这一生态变量的影响有限。
