Bir Huzurevinde Arkadaşlık Ağı Analizi

Year 2017, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, 10 - 24, 28.12.2017

Serkan Erebak

Abstract

Dünya nüfusu
yaşlanırken, daha çok insan sosyal çevrelerinin önemli derecede değiştiği
huzurevlerinde yaşamaya karar vermektedir. Yeni sosyal bağlar kurulması bu
inasnların sağlıklarını koruyabilmeleri için gereklidir. Arkadaşlık bu sosyal
bağların ana kısmını oluşturmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, huzurevinde yaşayan
yaşlılar arasındaki arkadaşlık yakından incelenmektedir. İlk olarak, 92
yaşlıyla arkadaşlıkları hakkında görüşme yapılmış; sonra da huzurevinin
kayıtları aracılığıyla bu kişilerin bilişsel durumları hakkında bilgi elde
edilmiştir. Akabinde, görüşme yapılan yaşlılar ve onların arkadaşlarının
bilişsel durumları arasındaki ilişkiler istatiksel yöntemlerle
değerlendirilmiştir. Arkadaşlık ağı analizi insanların yakınsal benzerliğe
dayanarak arkadaşlık kurabileceğini göstermiştir. İstatiksel analizler de yaşlı
insanların arkadaşlarını bilişsel benzerliği temel alarak seçebileceğini ortaya
çıkarmıştır. Sonuç olarak, huzurevi sakinlerinin arkadaş çevresi (3 kişiyle
limitli olarak) bu sakinlerin bilişsel durumlarını tahmin edebilir. 

Keywords

Huzurevi, Yaşlı insanlar, Arkadaşlık, Ağ, Biliş

A Friendship Network Analysis in a Nursing Home

Abstract

As the world population
is getting aged, more people decide to live in nursing homes where their social
environment changes dramatically. Forming new social ties become necessary for
them to keep their wellbeing. Friendship forms main branch of these social
ties. In this study, we scrutinize the friendship among elderly people who
reside in a nursing home. Firstly, 92 elderly people were interviewed for their
friendships; then, data for mental status obtained via records of the nursing
homes. Afterwards, the associations among the cognitive abilities of these
interviewees and their friends were statistically evaluated. Friendship network
analysis showed that elderly people may form friendships based on proximal
similarity. Statistical analyses indicated that, elderly people may choose
friends based on cognitive similarity. Therefore, residents’ circle of friends
(limited to 3) may predict the cognitive status of the resident.

Keywords

Nursing home, Older people, Friendship, Network, Cognition

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