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| Influence of time on social preferences: implications for life-span development | | Author(s) | Helene H Fung, Laura L Carstensen, Amy M Lutz |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 14, no 4, December 1999 |
| Pages | pp 595-604 |
| Keywords | Family relationships ; Attitude ; United States of America ; China ; Hong Kong. |
| Annotation | Socioemotional selectivity theory holds that the reliable decline in social contact in later life is due, in part, to older people's preferences for emotionally meaningful social partners and that such preferences are due not to age as such, but to perceived limitations on time. Confirming the theory, in both the United States and Hong Kong, older people showed a preference for familiar social partners, whereas younger people did not show this preference. However, when asked to imagine an expansive future, older people's bias for familiar social partners disappeared. Conversely, in the face of a hypothesised constraint on time, both younger and older people preferred familiar social partners. Moreover, social preferences in Hong Kong differed before and after the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China, which was construed as a socio-political time constraint. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000403405 A |
| Classmark | DS:SJ: DP: 7T: 7DC: 7DR |
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