В статье обосновывается новый метод субъективной оценки благополучия, основанный на анализе онлайн-активности пользователей в социальных сетях. Предлагаемый метод обладает как преимуществами (быстрота исследования, небольшие затраты, масштабность, детальность полученной информации), так и определенными ограничениями (охват «цифрового населения», технические сложности при исследовании густонаселенных мегаполисов и т.д.). В статье представлены результаты эмпирического исследования онлайн-активности пользователей социальной сети «ВКонтакте». На основе полученных данных рассчитан индекс субъективного (не)благополучия для 43 регионов РФ по 19 показателям, охватывающих экономические, социальные и политические аспекты качества жизни людей. Индекс субъективного (не)благополучия строится на изучении онлайн-активности пользователей, входящих в 1350 наиболее популярных региональных и городских сообществ в социальной сети «ВКонтакте». Период исследования включает в себя весь 2018 год. Благодарность. Исследование выполнено при финансовой поддержке «Программы повышения конкурентоспособности Томского государственного университета» (грант № 8.1.59.2018).
Loneliness among older adults has emerged as a specific social phenomenon relatively recently – in developed countries just a few decades ago. In Russia, due to its initially strong family-oriented culture, this problem presented itself even later, following the collapse of Soviet society. This article analyses probable social policy adjustments aimed at reducing the negative impact of loneliness on the older generation. We address the issue of loneliness assessment and prevention involving older adults themselves and social workers as experts. The methodology of 'expert seminars' involves comparing preliminary subjective assessments of the phenomenon under consideration with a final assessment of its contributing factors. Two groups of experts disagree on both the general assessment of loneliness and how to outline the loneliness-provoking factors and solutions suggested to combat it. Social workers have assumed that loneliness can be mitigated by developing an age-friendly environment, which improves the quality of life of the older generation. Older adults, however, clearly revealed in discussions during expert seminars and in their final recommendations that impersonal environment-oriented measures are not specific enough to tackle loneliness. In recent decades, political elites have made significant efforts to promote the importance, necessity and, to a large extent, the inevitability of delegating greater responsibility for the well-being of older adults to older adults themselves. However, participants of our Tomsk expert seminars were unwilling to take responsibility and continued to rely heavily on the social protection system rather than on personal resources or family support.
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