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| The effects of membership in church-related associations and labor unions on age differences in voluntary association affiliations | | Author(s) | Jon Hendricks, Stephen J Cutler |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 41, no 2, April 2001 |
| Pages | pp 250-256 |
| Keywords | Christianity ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Participation ; Trade Unions ; Voluntary agencies ; Cross sectional surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | When compositional differences between age groups are controlled, the bivariate, curvilinear pattern of age differences in voluntary association memberships is replaced by one in which peak membership levels occur in late middle age and remain relatively stable thereafter. It was sought to determine whether this adjusted pattern persists when widespread memberships in two types of associations are removed: church-related organizations, in which membership increases with age but may be confounded with church membership per se; and trade unions, in which membership is also widespread but may not be "voluntary". Total memberships in 14 types of associations were examined using aggregated data from 12 US national surveys conducted between 1974 and 1994. The familiar curvilinear relationship at the bivariate level appears, but in the multivariate analysis, membership levels rise from ages 18-24 to 55-59, and persist close to that level to age 85+. The results reaffirm that age differences in voluntary association affiliations are due to age-based compositional differences; they also show that the pattern observed with controls is neither driven by membership in church-related "associations" nor altered when membership in trade unions is excluded. (KJ). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010622219 A |
| Classmark | TS: EX: TMB: WMA: PK: 3KB: 7T |
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