城市老年人数字化融入的影响因素研究——基于社会生态系统视角的扎根理论分析

Influencing Factors of Digital Inclusion for Older Adults in Urban China: An Analysis Based on Grounded Theory from the Perspective of Social Ecosystem

人口老龄化与信息数字化是当前中国社会转型最突出的时代特征。由于受新冠疫情防控影响,两者间的矛盾逐渐显现。依托社会生态系统理论的微系统-中系统-外系统-宏系统构思导向,运用扎根理论研究方法,对盐城市30名老年人的访谈文本进行三级编码,构建了城市老年人数字化融入的影响因素模型。研究结果表明,影响城市老年人融入数字社会的因素包括:微系统(老年人自身的生理、心理等微观因素)、中系统(与老年人直接相关的关系网络群体)、外系统(与老年人间接相关的环境,如社区与科技适老化水平)及宏系统(文化、价值观、法律政策等宏观因素)四个方面。从个体、家庭、技术与政府等四个层面提出了对策建议。

Population aging and information digitization are the most prominent characteristics of the current social transformation in China. Due to the impact of COVID-19 prevention and control, the contradiction between the two is gradually emerging. From the perspective of social ecosystem theory,this paper employed grounded theory to conduct a three-level coding of interview texts of 30 older people in Yancheng, and constructed a model of influencing factors of digital inclusion for older adults in urban China. Results show that those influencing factors include a micro-system(older people’s physical and psychological factors), a meso-system(older people’s direct networking), an exo-system(environment indirectly associated with older adults, such as the aging-appropriate level of communities and technologies), and a macro-system(culture, values, and legal policies). Then this paper proposed countermeasures from four dimensions including individuals, families, technologies and the government.