基于社会资本理论的老年心理健康问题探讨

摘要

随着人口老龄化进程的加快,老年心理健康问题引起社会的极大关注.研究发现许多心理疾病都与社会背景因素有关,提倡用社会模型研究心理健康问题.从社会模型研究的新角度——社会资本出发,介绍了社会资本的定义、内容形式和作用,并根据美国社会学家Thomas F.Brown对社会资本的划分,分别从微观、中观和宏观层次,探讨老年心理健康中可利用的社会资本,为维护和提高老年人群心理健康提供新的思路.%With the acceleration of the aging population, the problems related to elderly mental health aroused great concern. Studies found that many mental illnesses are related to social background factors, so promote using the social model to study mental health problems. Starting from a new perspective about social model-social capital, this paper introduced its, definition, content form and function, and according to the U.S. sociologist Thomas F. Brown's division of social capital, respectively investigated the social capital available in the elderly mental health from the micro, meso and macro levels, to provide new ideas to maintain and improve the elderly mental health.