老年群体短视频使用的情感代偿机制与风险研究

Study on Emotional Compensation Mechanisms and Risks of Older Adults’ Short-Video Use

摘要: 随着老龄化程度不断加深以及数字技术迅速普及，老年群体成为互联网上越来越重要的用户群体，其中短视频成为当代老年群体重要的精神文化消费载体。面对家庭结构小型化、代际分离常态化与社会交往圈层萎缩，老年群体普遍存在情感供给缺口，而短视频通过独特的内容生产与传播逻辑，形成了对老年人现实情感缺失的代偿功能，有效缓解了老年人的孤独焦虑情绪。本研究旨在探析老年群体短视频使用的情感代偿生成机制，同时辩证审视短视频情感代偿存在的潜在风险，并提出优化老年群体短视频使用体验、规范情感代偿良性发展、夯实老年群体精神生活质量的实践路径，为新时代积极应对人口老龄化、老年人精神文化供给体系完善提供理论参考与现实借鉴。

Abstract: With the deepening of population aging and the rapid popularization of digital technology, the older adults have become an increasingly important user group on the Internet, among which short videos have emerged as a significant carrier of spiritual and cultural consumption for contemporary older adults. Faced with the miniaturization of family structures, the normalization of intergenerational separation, and the shrinking of social circles, the older adults generally face a deficit in emotional support. Short videos, through their unique content production and dissemination logic, have developed a compensatory function for the emotional deficiencies experienced by older adults in reality, effectively alleviating their feelings of loneliness and anxiety. This study aims to explore the generative mechanism of emotional compensation in short video use among the older adults. Meanwhile, it dialectically examines the potential risks associated with emotional compensation through short videos, and proposes practical pathways for optimizing the short video experience of older adults, regulating the healthy development of emotional compensation, and consolidating the quality of their spiritual life, thereby providing theoretical references and practical insights for actively responding to population aging in the new era and the improvement of the spiritual and cultural supply system for the elderly.