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Social role identities among older adults in a continuing care retirement community
Author(s)Phyllis Moen, Mary Ann Erickson, Donna Dempster-McClain
Journal titleResearch on Aging, vol 22, no 5, September 2000
Pagespp 559-579
KeywordsSocial roles ; Retirement communities ; Long term ; United States of America.
AnnotationBasing their hypotheses on identity and life-course theories, the authors examine the social role identities of 92 older Americans before and after moving to a new continuing care retirement community (CCRC), to investigate whether this transition is linked to changes in social role identities. The congruence between actually enacting a role and choosing it as a role identity varies with the role. Current role behaviours and satisfaction predict role identity for two institutionalised, public roles (volunteer and church / synagogue member), but are less related to two more private roles (parent and friend). Based on social role identities, cluster analysis reveals a typology of three distinct groups: an involved group with a high number of role identities; a group focused on family role identities; and a group focused on the friend role identity. The social role identities of the three groups changed in different ways after moving to the CCRC. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-001023215 A
ClassmarkTM5: ROA: 4Q: 7T

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