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Social Participation across Mid- and Later-life: Evidence from a Longitudinal Cohort Study
Sociological Perspectives ( IF 1.780 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-15 , DOI: 10.1177/0731121421992395
Eric M. Vogelsang 1
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Despite the benefits of social participation for individuals and communities, little is known about how social participation varies over the life course. Drawing upon data collected between 1957 and 2011 by the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (22,023 observations from a cohort of 6,627), this study provides four valuable results. First, I find evidence of five distinct social participation trajectories; the majority of which demonstrate social disengagement as individuals age. Second, these decreases were primarily attributable to declines in meeting friends and group exercise. Third, the activities most likely to predict being a part of more-desirable trajectories were cultural event attendance, voluntary group membership, and joining charity groups. Last, I find that seven different types of high school activities were each associated with greater social activity counts, decades later. In total, these results highlight systematic differences in social participation trajectories and suggest that age-graded participation changes are highly dependent on the underlying social activities.



中文翻译:

中晚期的社会参与:来自纵向队列研究的证据

尽管社会参与对个人和社区有好处,但人们对社会参与在生活过程中的变化知之甚少。根据威斯康星州纵向研究在1957年至2011年之间收集的数据(来自6,627个队列的22,023个观察结果),该研究提供了四个有价值的结果。首先,我发现了五种不同的社会参与轨迹的证据。其中大多数表现出随着个人年龄的增长而脱离社交。其次,这些减少主要归因于与朋友聚会和小组活动的减少。第三,最有可能预测成为更理想轨迹的一部分的活动是文化活动的出席,志愿团体的成员身份和加入慈善团体。最后的,我发现,几十年后,七种不同类型的高中活动分别与更多的社交活动相关。总体而言,这些结果凸显了社会参与轨迹的系统差异,并表明按年龄分级的参与变化高度依赖于潜在的社会活动。

更新日期:2021-02-16
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