The Analysis of Service Consciousness of the Urban Elderly : The Effects of Social Network.

トシ コウレイシャ ノ フクシ サービス ニ タイスル イシキ ノ ヒカク ブンセキ シャカイテキ ネットワーク ノ コウカ オ チュウシンニ

イワブチ, アキコ

Iwabuchi, Akiko

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

英語

福祉サービス意識

福祉サービスへの関心

社会的ネットワーク

社会的ネットワーク変数の非線形効果

urban elderly

service consciousness

interest to health and welfare services

social network

non-linear effects of social network variables

In the trend of aging of society, formal health and welfare services get increasing important roles for elderly and their family. In order to promote services use, some determinants of use have been explored for example, service consciousness. This article examines the existence of new dimension of service consciousness, interest to services, and compares it with existing attitude dimension from the standpoint of the role of social networks. Analyses are based on personal interviews with a random sample of 402, aged 60 to 79, living in Chitose, Hokkaido. In this study, for stepwise regression analysis, two models are examined. Model 1 is consisted of socioeconomic variables; gender, age, having job, income and subjective health feeling. Model 2 is consisted of variables of model 1 and social networks variables; coresident members, coresident children, non-coresident children and kin, contact with close friends, and community groups. Multiple regression analyses reveal the important difference of two dimensions and the existence of interest dimension. Positive attitude is more influenced by socioeconomic variables than interest, and strong interest get more impact from social network variables. And positive attitude has socioeconomical characteristics and strong interest is genderd characteristics. Another important finding is that contact with children and kin living separately made a non-linear (U-shaped) contribution to both service consciousness, strong interest and positive attitude, because non-coresident children and kin have both strong-tie and weak-tie characteristics. Those who have less interest and negative attitude to health and welfare services is more men, have coresident members, having more contact with non-coresident kin, and less commitment to their community.

英語