ArticleSociological perspectives : SP : official publication of the Pacific Sociological Association2021
Social Participation across Mid- and Later-Life: Evidence from a Longitudinal Cohort Study.
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- The impact of social participation trajectories on depression incidence among Chinese older adults.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Gender Differences in the Protective Effects of Social Participation on Depressive Symptom Trajectories Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in China: A Nationwide Longitudinal Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- High-Impact Participation? Social Activities, Activity Frequency, and Older Adult Cognition.Journal of aging and health · 2026Article
- Older Adult Social Participation and Cognition: Illustrating Survey and Measurement Heterogeneity Across Studies.Research on aging · 2026Article
- Reciprocal relationship between intrinsic capacity and social activity influenced by gender in advanced middle-aged adults in South Korea.BMC public health · 2026Article
- The relationship between adolescent reading habits and older adult social engagement - A longitudinal cohort analysis.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Despite the benefits of social participation for individuals and communities, little is known about how social participation varies over the life course. Drawing upon data collected between 1957 and 2011 by the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (22,023 observations from a cohort of 6,627), this study provides four valuable results. One, I find evidence of five distinct social participation trajectories; the majority of which demonstrate social disengagement as individuals age. Two, these decreases were primarily attributable to declines in meeting friends and group exercise. Three, the activities most likely to predict being a part of more-desirable trajectories were cultural event attendance, voluntary group membership, and joining charity groups. Lastly, I find that seven different types of high school activities were each associated with greater social activity counts, decades later. In total, these results highlight systematic differences in social participation trajectories; and suggest that age-graded participation changes are highly dependent on the underlying social activities.
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