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Role enhancement or role strain — assessing the impact of multiple productive roles on older caregiver well-being
Author(s)	Philip A Rozario, Nancy Morrow-Howell, James E Hinterlong
Journal title	Research on Aging, vol 26, no 4, July 2004
Pages	pp 413-428
Source	http://www.sagepub.com
Keywords	Informal care ; Older people ; Well being ; Social roles ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	Proponents of productive ageing claim that occupying productive roles is beneficial to the self and others. In this study, the authors use the role enhancement and role strain perspectives with data from three waves of the Americans' Changing Lives Study (ACL), to test the effects of occupying multiple productive roles on the three well-being indicators of 270 older caregivers. Older caregivers who worked and/or volunteered reported better self-rated health, supporting the role enhancement hypothesis. No evidence of role strain was found. For caregivers without multiple productive roles, high informal social integration was related with low functional impairment. This study suggests that productive roles may have a positive effect on older caregivers, and finds no evidence of any negative effects. (RH)
Accession Number	CPA-040909221 A
Classmark	P6: B: D:F:5HH: TM5: 3J: 7T
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