2019 Volume 13 Issue 1 Pages 27-36
This study examined factors that contribute to older people’s participation in community organization（COs）with members who have similar characteristics. These factors are discussed in terms of personal attributes and CO types. From a questionnaire given to 12,000 people in 30 metropolitan Tokyo municipalities, data from 903 people without employment, ≥60 years old, and who participated in COs were analyzed. A binomial logistic regression analysis was used to examine factors associated with homogeneity of sex, age, and educational background as the dependent variables. The effects of interaction between sex and each variable were also examined. In the main effect, women tended to belong to organizations in which members’ sex and education were more homogenous than among men. In the interaction effect, homogeneity of sex was high in men for whom health self-evaluation was high, and homogeneity of educational background was high in women for whom problem-solving organizations were important. Homogeneity of age was, however, low in women with higher educational background, homogeneity of sex was low in women who valued community organizations, and homogeneity of age and educational background were low in men who valued problem-solving organizations. The results suggest the need for strategies related to participants’ homogeneity in COs.
