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Neighborhood problems and health among older adults
— received and donated social support and the sense of mastery as effect modifiers | | Author(s) | Scott Schieman, Stephen C Meersman |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 59B, no 2, March 2004 |
| Pages | pp S89-S97 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Crime ; Stress ; Informal care ; Health [elderly] ; Self esteem ; Competence ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The expectation is that neighbourhood problems are associated positively with physical symptoms and stress. In addition, a buffering hypothesis predicts that received support and mastery protect against the detrimental effects of neighbourhood problems. In 2001-2002, face-to-face interviews were conducted with a sample of 1,167 adults aged over 65 in Maryland (MD) and the District of Columbia (DC). For men, received support and perceived mastery buffer the detrimental effects of neighbourhood problems. In contrast, donated support exacerbates the negative physical health effects of neighbourhood problems. For women, donated support amplifies the effects of neighbourhood problems on anger. However, with anger and depression, the buffering effects of received support become evident only after accounting for the interaction between neighbourhood problems and donated support. The findings have implications for the stress process model, the theoretical perspective on different items of social support, and the "buffering" amd "cost of caring" predictions for women and men. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040705220 A |
| Classmark | RH: TWA: QNH: P6: CC: DPA: DPB: 49: 7T |
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