患难之交还是天伦之乐?不同来源社会支持在城市空巢老人微信社群参与和孤独感间的中介效应  

Friendship or Kinship?The Mediating Effect of Different-sourced Social Support between Urban Empty Nesters WeChat Community Participation and Their Loneliness

作　　者：刘婵君[1] 李爽[1] 林泳淇 刘焕 LIU Chanjun;LI Shuang;LIN Yongqi;LIU Huan(School of Journalism and New Media,Xi’an Jiaotong University;Guangdong Teachers College of Foreign Languages and Arts)

机构地区：[1]西安交通大学新闻与新媒体学院 [2]广东省外语艺术职业学院

出　　处：《国际新闻界》2024年第9期26-49,共24页Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication

基　　金：教育部人文社会学科研究项目“新媒体视域下城市老年群体社群参与研究”(项目编号:19YJC860028)研究成果。

摘　　要：城市空巢老人心理健康问题,已成为老龄化浪潮中最严峻挑战之一。互联网时代,破解城市空巢老人身体“空巢”与心理“空心”的双重困境,除呼吁家庭、朋友与社会的共同关爱,更离不开社交媒体辅助支持。研究聚焦城市空巢老人这一特殊群体的特定在线社交活动,勾勒出城市空巢老人微信社群参与经由不同来源社会支持进而影响孤独感的路径,并进一步探讨不同来源社会支持作用差异的深层动因。研究发现,朋友支持在城市空巢老人的微信社群参与度和孤独感之间具有显著中介效应,家庭支持和其他支持则呈现出疲软态势。这是微信社群属性、物理空间区隔、舆论导向、个体选择等多重因素交织下的逻辑耦合,但是,单一来源社会支持难掩空巢老人情感支持薄弱、社会保障缺位的现实隐忧,未来应搭建线上线下有效联动的社会支持体系,推动社会支持从单一失衡到多元均衡跨越。The mental health of urban empty-nesters has become one of the most serious challenges in the wave of ageing.In the Internet era,in order to solve the dual dilemmas of physical“empty nest”and psychological“empty heart”of urban empty nesters,we need to call for the joint care of family,friends and society,while social media support is essential as well.The study focuses on the specific online social activities of this special group of urban empty nesters.It outlines the pathways through which WeChat community participation affects loneliness.These pathways involve different sources of social support.The study further explores the underlying reasons for the differences in the role of different sources of social support.It finds that friend support has a significant mediating effect between WeChat community participation and loneliness among urban empty nesters,while family support and other support have no signfiicant effect.This is a result of the interplay between multiple factors,including WeChat community attributes,physical space segregation,public opinion orientation,and individual choices.However,a single source of social support cannot hide the reality of weak emotional support and the lack of social security for the empty nesters.Therefore,a social support system should be established in the future to effectively link online and offline support and promote a balanced and diversified approach to social support.

关 键 词：空巢老人 社群参与 家庭支持 朋友支持 孤独感 

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