A Mixed-Method Social Network Analysis of Low-Income Diverse Older Volunteers
Journal of Applied Gerontology(2023)
摘要
Although volunteering has been associated with numerous social benefits for diverse older adults, there is little information on how they establish relationships within a multicultural volunteering program outside of their co-ethnic communities. This convergent mixed-method social network study adopts the bonding and bridging social capital theory to explore the structures and dynamics of social interactions within a multicultural volunteer program. Low-income Russian, Khmer, Somali, Nepali, and English-speaking older volunteers in the Senior Companions Program (SCP) in a Midwest metropolitan ( N = 83) participated in the surveys and focus groups. Homophily coefficients ( r) show that the SCP volunteers mostly interacted with people who identified with the same nationality ( r = .86), race ( r = .87), and gender ( r = .50). Qualitative results suggested that volunteers strengthened their social networks through within-cultural social bonding while appreciating opportunities for cross-cultural social bridging. Compared with within-cultural social bonding, cross-cultural social bridging in multicultural volunteer programs require intentional facilitation, resources, and organizational commitment.
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social network analysis,mixed-method,low-income
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