Social Challenges and Social Gerontology Competencies

Q3 Arts and Humanities

Collegium Antropologicum Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.5671/ca.46.4.7

Erika Džajić Uršič, Bojan Macuh, Predrag Ljubotina, A. Raspor

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The trend toward an aging population observed in Slovenia is one of the major problems as in other developed countries within the European Union. The goal of the paper was to analyse the state of the art of the field, and suggest a potential set of variables for measurement instruments with appropriate Social Gerontology (SG) competencies for educational programs. Using the mixed method approach, the aim of the paper was to observe and suggest the most (1) needed, (2) desired, and (3) obtained SG competencies for Higher Education Institutions. The results of analysis and measurements indicate how the opinion of our respondents intersects with 40 national factors recognized by gerontological social workers. We than categorized geathered data into ten factors, which represent potential set of variables for a new measurement instrument, showing frequencies that are proportional to the importance perceived by our respondents. Our preliminary research questions are: (1) Which (social and non-social) competencies are included in existing study programmes in Slovenia? (2) Which competencies are recognized by experienced workers as most important for enabling (future) students to effectively work with the elderly?

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社会挑战和社会老年学能力

与欧洲联盟内其他发达国家一样，斯洛文尼亚出现的人口老龄化趋势是主要问题之一。本文的目的是分析该领域的现状，并建议一组具有适当社会老年学(SG)能力的测量工具的潜在变量。使用混合方法方法，本文的目的是观察和建议高等教育机构最(1)需要，(2)期望和(3)获得的SG能力。分析和测量的结果表明，我们的受访者的意见是如何相交的40个国家因素公认的老年社会工作者。然后，我们将收集到的数据分为十个因素，这些因素代表了一种新的测量仪器的潜在变量集，显示频率与我们的受访者所感知的重要性成正比。我们的初步研究问题是:(1)斯洛文尼亚现有的学习项目包括哪些(社会和非社会)能力?(2)有经验的工作者认为哪些能力对(未来的)学生有效地与老年人一起工作最重要?

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期刊介绍： International journal Collegium Antropologicum is the official journal of the Croatian Antropological Society and is jointly published by: Croatian Anthropological Society Croatian Association of Medical Anthropology - Croatian Medical Association Department of Natural Sciences, Anthropological Centre and the Scientific Council for Anthropological Research of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. With the numerous international recognition of co-operative experts, the Journal represents a relevant reference source in the fields of cultural and biological anthropology, sociology, ethnology, psychology, demography, history, archaeology, genetics, biomedicine, human ecology, nutrition and other fields related to multidisciplinary character of anthropology.