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| Correlates of emotional support and negative interaction among older black Americans | | Author(s) | Karen D Lincoln, Robert Joseph Taylor, Linda M Chatters |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 58B, no 4, July 2003 |
| Pages | pp S225-S233 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Black people ; Informal care ; Family relationships ; Friendship ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The present analyses are based on the responses of 519 older African American respondents (aged 55 to 96) from the Americans' Changing Lives Survey. Structural equation modelling was used to estimate the direct and indirect effects of sociodemographic variables (i.e. age, gender, education, income, marital status, and presence of children), social contact factors (i.e. frequency of face-to-face and telephone contact), and personality (i.e. extraversion and neuroticism) on emotional support and negative interaction with relatives and friends. Most of the Blacks in this sample participated in emotionally supportive relations with relatives and friends, whereas negative social interactions were reported with less frequency. Gender, marital status and extroversion were significantly associated with emotional support, while age, education, marital status, having a child and neuroticism were identified as correlates of negative interaction. The role of personality factors in these processes is thus emphasised. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040406214 A |
| Classmark | TKE: P6: DS:SJ: DS:SX: 7T |
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