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Negative interaction in late life
— issues in the stability and generalizability of conflict across relationships | | Author(s) | Neal Krause, Karen S Rook |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 58B, no 2, March 2003 |
| Pages | pp P88-99 |
| Keywords | Family relationships ; Personal relationships ; Stress ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | An inductive approach is used to probe more deeply into the nature of negative interaction in late life. The data come from a US longitudinal survey of 515 older people. The authors began with two empirical observations and derived theoretical propositions from them that have not been explored extensively in mainstream gerontological research on negative interaction. First, the findings reveal that unpleasant interaction is quite stable over a 6-year period, suggesting that interpersonal difficulties are chronic stressors that may arise because at least some older people are involved in conflictual relationships that are difficult to terminate. The second finding reveals that older people who encounter personal problems in one social relationship (e.g. with children) tend to encounter them in others as well (e.g. with friends). This suggests that some older people may play a role in creating the negative interactions they encounter. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030416006 A |
| Classmark | DS:SJ: DS: QNH: 3J: 7T |
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