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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Aging and Public Health
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1488356
This article is part of the Research Topic International Perspectives on Older Adult Social Isolation and Loneliness View all 36 articles

Association between social participation patterns and social adaptation among retired Tibetan immigrants: the mediating effect of institutional capital

Provisionally accepted
Yue Zhou Yue Zhou Menghe Ma Menghe Ma Sheng Sun Sheng Sun *
  • Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China

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    This study aims to examine the impact of various patterns of social participation on social adaptation among retired Tibetan immigrant elders, as well as the mediating role of institutional capital in this relationship. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Sichuan Province, China, involving 700 older adults who immigrated to Sichuan after retiring from Tibet. After excluding invalid samples, 501 were retained for the final analysis. Distinct patterns of social participation were identified using latent class analysis (LCA), and multiple regression models were employed to analyze the mediating role of institutional capital in the relationship between social participation patterns and social adaptation. The results revealed four distinct patterns of social participation among the participants: full low-level participation, personal relationshipcentric participation, social relevance-oriented participation, and balanced active participation. Institutional capital was found to play both a partial and a full mediating role in the relationship between social participation patterns and social adaptation.

    Keywords: Social Participation, social adaptation, Institutional capital, Tibetan immigrants, Mediating effect

    Received: 29 Aug 2024; Accepted: 31 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Zhou, Ma and Sun. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Sheng Sun, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China

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