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Relationship with others and life satisfaction in later life
— do gender and widowhood make a difference? | | Author(s) | Sheung-Tak Cheng, Alfred C M Chan |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 61B, no 1, January 2006 |
| Pages | pp P46-P53 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Older men ; Older women ; Widows ; Widowers ; Married persons ; Personal relationships ; Family relationships ; Friendship ; Well being ; Correlation ; Hong Kong. |
| Annotation | Using a representative sample of 1616 Chinese people aged 60+ in Hong Kong, the authors investigated whether relationship is a stronger determinant of life satisfaction in older women than in older men, and whether this is more obvious in widowed than in married people. The authors also tested the moderating effect of gender and widowhood by means of a multigroup analysis in structural equation modelling, incorporating other major predictors of life satisfaction. Consistent with predictions, relatedness was much more important for women than for men. Furthermore, relatedness was the most important determinant of life satisfaction for women, regardless of marital status, but it was only a moderate predictor in married men, and even an irrelevant factor for widowers. Results are discussed n terms of how gender roles shape relationship goals, and thus how men and women evaluate life satisfaction differently in the context of relationship with others. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060314234 A |
| Classmark | BC: BD: SP: SPA: SLP: DS: DS:SJ: DS:SX: D:F:5HH: 49: 7DR |
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