Gupta V, Korte C
Division of Multidisciplinary Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.
Int J Aging Hum Dev. 1994;39(4):293-302. doi: 10.2190/4YYH-9XAU-WQF9-APVT.
A study of 100 elderly people was carried out to compare the predictions of well-being derived from the confidant model with those derived from the Weiss model. The confidant model predicts that the most important feature of a person's social network for the well-being of that person is whether or not the person has a confidant. The Weiss model states that different persons are needed to fulfill the different needs of the person and in particular that a confidant is important to the need for intimacy and emotional security while a peer group of social friends is needed to fulfill sociability and identity needs. The two models were evaluated by comparing the relative influence of the confidant variable with the peer group variable on subject's well-being. Regression analysis was carried out on the well-being measure using as predictor variables the confidant variable, peer group variable, age, health, and financial status. The confidant and peer group variables were of equal importance to well-being, thus confirming the Weiss model.
一项针对100名老年人的研究开展了，目的是比较从知己模型得出的幸福感预测结果与从韦斯模型得出的幸福感预测结果。知己模型预测，就一个人的幸福感而言，其社交网络最重要的特征是这个人是否有一个知己。韦斯模型指出，需要不同的人来满足一个人的不同需求，特别是知己对于亲密感和情感安全感的需求很重要，而一群社会朋友则是满足社交性和身份认同需求所必需的。通过比较知己变量和同龄人群体变量对研究对象幸福感的相对影响，对这两个模型进行了评估。以知己变量、同龄人群体变量、年龄、健康状况和财务状况作为预测变量，对幸福感指标进行了回归分析。知己变量和同龄人群体变量对幸福感同等重要，从而证实了韦斯模型。
