Patterns of Social Embeddedness in Later Adulthood: Gender and Other Covariates

The concept of social exclusion is widely used in academia and social policy discourse in European countries. However, one of the constituents of social exclusion, namely, exclusion from social relationships, remains unclear and underdeveloped both conceptually and empirically. Moreover, knowledge o...

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Main Authors: Sarmitė Mikulionienė, Inga Gaižauskaitė, Vaidas Morkevičius
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Published: Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology 2021-08-01
Series:Gender a Výzkum
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Online Access:https://genderonline.cz/en/artkey/gav-202101-0002_patterns-of-social-embeddedness-in-later-adulthood-gender-and-other-covariates.php
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Vaidas Morkevičius
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description The concept of social exclusion is widely used in academia and social policy discourse in European countries. However, one of the constituents of social exclusion, namely, exclusion from social relationships, remains unclear and underdeveloped both conceptually and empirically. Moreover, knowledge on the patterns of exclusion from social relationships among men and women in later adulthood is even less advanced. Therefore, we developed a multidimensional scale for measuring an individual's level of embeddedness in social relationships and examined the gender patterns of social embeddedness. We applied latent class analysis to survey data collected on a sample of 2015 residents of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia aged 50+. We derived a seven-class model based on a continuum from strong to weak social embeddedness. We identified two classes with a high level of exclusion from social relations and, conversely, two classes with a high level of social embeddedness. Subsequent multinomial regression analysis revealed that gender was a statistically significant predictor in the cases of the most excluded class and one of the most socially embedded classes.
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spelling doaj-art-c459b3b4dfce4edbbf5ccb3702b5f4a32025-08-20T02:51:42ZcesCzech Academy of Sciences, Institute of SociologyGender a Výzkum2570-65782570-65862021-08-01221365810.13060/gav.2021.013gav-202101-0002Patterns of Social Embeddedness in Later Adulthood: Gender and Other CovariatesSarmitė Mikulionienė0Inga Gaižauskaitė1Vaidas Morkevičius2Lithuanian Centre for Social SciencesLithuanian Centre for Social SciencesKaunas University of TechnologyThe concept of social exclusion is widely used in academia and social policy discourse in European countries. However, one of the constituents of social exclusion, namely, exclusion from social relationships, remains unclear and underdeveloped both conceptually and empirically. Moreover, knowledge on the patterns of exclusion from social relationships among men and women in later adulthood is even less advanced. Therefore, we developed a multidimensional scale for measuring an individual's level of embeddedness in social relationships and examined the gender patterns of social embeddedness. We applied latent class analysis to survey data collected on a sample of 2015 residents of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia aged 50+. We derived a seven-class model based on a continuum from strong to weak social embeddedness. We identified two classes with a high level of exclusion from social relations and, conversely, two classes with a high level of social embeddedness. Subsequent multinomial regression analysis revealed that gender was a statistically significant predictor in the cases of the most excluded class and one of the most socially embedded classes.https://genderonline.cz/en/artkey/gav-202101-0002_patterns-of-social-embeddedness-in-later-adulthood-gender-and-other-covariates.phpsocial relationshipssocial exclusionlatent class analysis
spellingShingle Sarmitė Mikulionienė
Inga Gaižauskaitė
Vaidas Morkevičius
Patterns of Social Embeddedness in Later Adulthood: Gender and Other Covariates
Gender a Výzkum
social relationships
social exclusion
latent class analysis
title Patterns of Social Embeddedness in Later Adulthood: Gender and Other Covariates
title_full Patterns of Social Embeddedness in Later Adulthood: Gender and Other Covariates
title_fullStr Patterns of Social Embeddedness in Later Adulthood: Gender and Other Covariates
title_full_unstemmed Patterns of Social Embeddedness in Later Adulthood: Gender and Other Covariates
title_short Patterns of Social Embeddedness in Later Adulthood: Gender and Other Covariates
title_sort patterns of social embeddedness in later adulthood gender and other covariates
topic social relationships
social exclusion
latent class analysis
url https://genderonline.cz/en/artkey/gav-202101-0002_patterns-of-social-embeddedness-in-later-adulthood-gender-and-other-covariates.php
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