不同养老模式下老年人社会网络的结构与功能——基于双案例的探索性分析

The Structure and Function of Social Network under Different Patterns of Elderly Care:Exploratory analysis based on two cases

本文采用有向整体网的研究方法,从社会支持的四个维度分析了机构养老与居家养老两种模式下老年人社会网络的结构特征和功能差异。研究发现,养老模式的差异影响老年人社会网络的结构和功能,不同的社会支持度和不同的社会网络方向表现出明显的差异。养老机构的老年人更多依赖"弱关系",而居家养老的老年人还是更多依赖"强关系"。具有较多结构洞的老年人并没有获得更多的社会支持,但是他们具有获取社会支持资源的潜力。

The difference of the structure and function of elderly social network between institutional care mode and home care mode was analyzed in this study using directed network methods.Four dimensions of social support and two directions of network were designed to analyze the difference.The findings demonstrated that the structure and function of the elderly social network are affected by different elder care modes and clear difference can be seen in different dimension of social support and the direction of social network.The elderly under institutional care rely more on 'weak ties',and those under home care are more 'strong ties' dependent.The elderly with more structural holes do not get more social support,but they have the potential to gain more social support resource.