Extending the communicative ecology model of successful aging using talk about careers and retirement

IF 3.1 2区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Communication Monographs Pub Date : 2022-01-18 DOI:10.1080/03637751.2021.2025410

P. Gettings, K. Kuang

引用次数: 4

Abstract

ABSTRACT Given the emphasis on work in American lives, this study extended the communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA) by testing two new domains of communication about aging: career meaning and preparing for retirement (N = 340 older adults). Findings supported many of the proposed paths including negative environmental chatter to negative affect, uncertainty, and both domains of communication. Positive environmental chatter was associated with positive affect, efficacy, and both domains. In both models, uncertainty was positively associated with negative affect and inversely with positive affect. Efficacy was consistently related to successful aging. Finally, the effect of positive environmental chatter on successful aging was serially mediated by career meaning, negative affect, and efficacy. Results offer theoretical and practical implications.

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通过谈论职业和退休来扩展成功老龄化的交流生态学模型

摘要鉴于美国人生活中对工作的重视，本研究通过测试关于衰老的两个新的沟通领域，扩展了成功衰老的沟通生态学模型（CEMSA）：职业意义和为退休做准备（N = 340名老年人）。研究结果支持了许多建议的路径，包括负面环境聊天到负面影响、不确定性，以及沟通的两个领域。积极的环境谈话与积极的情感、功效以及这两个领域都相关。在这两个模型中，不确定性与消极影响呈正相关，与积极影响呈负相关。疗效始终与成功衰老相关。最后，积极的环境谈话对成功衰老的影响是由职业意义、负面影响和功效依次介导的。研究结果提供了理论和实践启示。

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Communication Monographs COMMUNICATION-

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期刊介绍： Communication Monographs, published in March, June, September & December, reports original, theoretically grounded research dealing with human symbolic exchange across the broad spectrum of interpersonal, group, organizational, cultural and mediated contexts in which such activities occur. The scholarship reflects diverse modes of inquiry and methodologies that bear on the ways in which communication is shaped and functions in human interaction. The journal endeavours to publish the highest quality communication social science manuscripts that are grounded theoretically. The manuscripts aim to expand, qualify or integrate existing theory or additionally advance new theory. The journal is not restricted to particular theoretical or methodological perspectives.