Active Aging and Learning Outcomes: What Can Older People Learn From Participation?

Villar, Feliciano; Serrat, Rodrigo; Celdrán, Montserrat; Pinazo, Sacramento

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“…Overall, our study results show that generativity plays a differential role according to the type of active aging activity considered. While active aging activities have not usually been explored from a comparative lens, our findings support the usefulness of such an approach (Villar et al, 2020). Our study contributes to the literature on active aging by showing that some of the activities included within this concept may be prompted by different antecedents.…”

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“…Many activities could be included under this umbrella, but not all of them may yield the same benefits or be prompted by the same antecedents in all older people (e.g., Morrow-Howell et al, 2009). A differential approach to participation, comparing its various potential expressions in later life, has rarely been addressed in the literature on active aging (for an exception, see e.g., Villar et al, 2020).…”

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The Role of Generativity in Later Life in the Case of Productive Activities: Does the Type of Active Aging Activity Matter?

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Active aging has been associated with both personal and social benefits. However, active aging encompasses a broad range of activities, including self-oriented and community-oriented ones. The aim of this study was to explore to what extent generativity is a key factor in differentiating between both types of activity, and to contribute to the theoretical and methodological literature on generativity as a multidimensional concept relevant to later life participation in certain activities related to an active style of living. A sample of 549 older adults who engaged in two types of self-oriented activity (leisure activities and students of University of the Third Age programs) and two types of community-oriented activity (formal volunteering and political activism) participated in this study. Following a mixed-method strategy, we administered several qualitative and quantitative measures of generativity, including generative concern, generative goals, and perceived cultural demand. Our results showed that participants who engaged in self-oriented and community-oriented activities differed on all dimensions of generativity. Differences in generativity were particularly high regarding cultural demand and future generative goals, which were far more frequently mentioned by political activists and volunteers than by university of the third age students and those pursuing leisure activities. Overall, our findings suggest that generativity plays a role in older adults’ participation in some (but not all) active aging activities in later life, and that our understanding of generativity in later life gains from a multidimensional assessment of the concept.

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“…In the effect of activity directed to the external world, elder people feel benefits from extended social network, they feel they learn to sympathize with others and learn empathy, which is accompanied by rejecting materialism and finding the existential sense in helping others. Research conducted amongst individuals engaged in political organisations, volunteering jobs, Universities of the Third Age (Villar et al, 2019) indicate such effects of informal learning experienced by elder people as: the increase of the ability of understanding and appreciating ourselves, the improvement of managing our emotions, experiencing the feeling of being useful and our personal value, change or enhancement of personal values, and even redefining our life philosophy. It may then influence the assessment of our life situation.…”

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Activity Models in Late Adulthood. Educational Context

Kozerska

2020

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Activity contained in the title is considered throughout the article as the context of learning in the course of everyday life. Purpose: To compare the level in which three different sets of independent variables (three models) predict activity of elderly people in areas concerning: 1. Spirituality/Religion, 2. External world and 3. Themselves. The elements of Model 1. are selected demographic variables and 'Satisfaction with life', 'Feelings of loneliness' and 'Health problems'. Model 2. extends this set by the variable 'Wisdom'. Model 3. adds the variable 'Subjective definitions of successful ageing'. Method: Hierarchical regression analysis was used. Participants: 192 older adults from Poland, aged 60-92. Results: Irrespective of the type of activity, the higher engagement of an elder person is accompanied by the increase of satisfaction with life. In the presented models, only one of the four analysed dimensions of wisdom appear to be essential-affective wisdom. Its level increases along with the engagement in building a harmony with the surrounding world and the development of one's own spirituality. Formal education is a very important element of activity in the area of learning harmony with oneself: it has a slightly lower, but statistically significant importance, in the models of activity directed to the external world, and it has no significance in models based on spiritual/religious activity. Conclusions: Model 1. best explains activity in the area of learning harmony with ourselves. Additional variables considered in models 2 and 3 do not contribute to the improvement of statistics regarding the adjustment of the regression model. The situation is different in the

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“…Service learning, programs that are designed to foster civic skills and volunteering in youth, does appear to promote understanding of social issues as well as organizational and academic skills [37]. In older adults, voluntary participation is presumed to provide opportunities for lifelong learning [38], an assumption supported by subjective reports of older activists and volunteers [39,40].…”

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Volunteering and political participation are differentially associated with eudaimonic and social well-being across age groups and European countries

Pavlova

Lühr

2023

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Voluntary participation is thought to promote the well-being of engaged individuals, especially in old age, but prior evidence on this link is mixed. In the present studies, we used the cross-sectional data from Round 6 (2012) of the European Social Survey (ESS) to investigate the variation in the associations between voluntary participation and eudaimonic (e.g., sense of direction) and social (e.g., perceived social support) well-being across types of participation (nonpolitical volunteering vs. political participation), age groups, and European countries. Study 1 addressed individual-level associations and age differences therein (preregistered at https://osf.io/2p9sz and https://osf.io/6twqe). Two-level multiple regression with an extensive set of control variables showed that at the within-country level, the associations between voluntary participation and well-being indicators were small on average. Nonpolitical volunteering had significantly more positive effects than did political participation, whereas few significant age differences emerged. Study 2 focused on the country-level variables that might explain the substantial cross-national variation in the main effects of voluntary participation (preregistered at https://osf.io/mq3dx). Only GDP per capita was a significant moderator at the country level: The associations of nonpolitical volunteering with eudaimonic well-being were more positive in the European countries with lower GDP. Other country-level variables (Gini coefficient, social welfare spending, and democracy indices) yielded no consistent moderation effects. Study 3 considered potential country-level explanations for the substantial cross-national variation in whether younger or older adults appeared to benefit more (preregistered at https://osf.io/7ks45). None of the country-level variables considered (effective retirement age in men, life expectancy at 65, average age of members of the national parliament and cabinet, and youth unemployment rate) could account for this variation. We conclude that, given the large cross-national variation in the effects of voluntary participation on well-being and in age differences therein, more attention to national specifics is warranted.

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Active Aging and Learning Outcomes: What Can Older People Learn From Participation?

Cited by 11 publications

References 30 publications

The Role of Generativity in Later Life in the Case of Productive Activities: Does the Type of Active Aging Activity Matter?

The Role of Generativity in Later Life in the Case of Productive Activities: Does the Type of Active Aging Activity Matter?

Activity Models in Late Adulthood. Educational Context

Volunteering and political participation are differentially associated with eudaimonic and social well-being across age groups and European countries

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