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| Regulation of social relationships in later adulthood | | Author(s) | Frieder R Lang |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 56B, no 6, November 2001 |
| Pages | pp P321-P326 |
| Keywords | Family relationships ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | Individuals are seen as producers of their social environments, who actively manage the social resources that contribute to their positive ageing. The regulation of social relationships reflects adaptive mechanisms of deliberate acquisition, maintenance, transformation, or discontinuation of relationships within the individual's personal network. Mechanisms of relationship regulation in later life are illustrated on the individual level with recent empirical findings on social motivation. Close emotional ties are relatively stable until late in life, whereas peripheral (i.e. not close) social relationships are preferably discontinued. Such patterns of change and continuity were found to reflect individual differences in goal priorities and in future time perspectives (i.e. subjective nearness to death). Proactively moulding the social world in accordance with one's age-specific needs also contributes to subjective well-being. The regulation of social relationships is proposed as a promising area for further research in this field that may reflect key issues in social, emotional and cognitive ageing. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020107209 A |
| Classmark | DS:SJ: 3A:6KC |
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