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| The exchange of emotional support with age and its relationship with emotional well-being by age | | Author(s) | Corey L M Keyes |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 57B, no 6, November 2002 |
| Pages | pp P518-P525 |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Well being ; Age groups [elderly] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data from the Midlife in the United States study of 3,032 Americans aged 25-74 are used to test three hypotheses. The social contact hypothesis predicts that hours of emotional support given and received should increase with age. The exchange hypothesis predicts that the discrepancy between the hours of emotional support given and received should decrease with age to reflect more balanced exchanges with age. The goal hypothesis predicts that unequal exchanges of support should predict higher negative and lower positive affect with age. Findings support each hypothesis. Hours of emotional support given and received decreased as chronological age increased. Although adults of all ages gave more support than they received, the discrepancy between hours of emotional support given and received became more balanced with age. Compared with equal exchanges, unequal exchanges predicted worse emotional well-being profiles only among the oldest people in this study (i.e. those aged 55-64 and 65-74). Findings contribute to the growing literature on the changing nature of the quality and quantity of interpersonal exchanges with age. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021216261 A |
| Classmark | P6: D:F:5HH: BB: 7T |
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