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Definitions of friendship in the third age: age, gender and study location effects
Author(s)Rebecca G Adams, Rosemary Blieszner, Brian De Vries
Journal titleJournal of Aging Studies, vol 14, no 1, March 2000
Pagespp 117-133
KeywordsFriendship ; Attitude ; Cross cultural surveys ; Canada ; United States of America.
AnnotationFriendship is not institutionalised in American society; hence, perceptions of it vary. Rather than studying sources of this variation, most researchers ignore the complexity, highlight the difficulty it causes in analysis, or eliminate it. This study examined the frequency of use of previously studied and emergent characteristics of friendship as definitional criteria, and the age, gender, and cultural patterns associated with them. Data were drawn from the Andrus Study of Older Adult Friendships in southeastern US, and the Social Relations Project in western Canada. Definitions of friendship differed across age and gender groups within each culture, but most striking is cross-cultural variation. (AKM).
Accession NumberCPA-000522254 A
ClassmarkDS:SX: DP: 3KA: 7S: 7T

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