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| Long-standing nonkin relationships of older adults in the Netherlands and the United States | | Author(s) | Jenny de Jong Gierveld, Daniel Perlman |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 28, no 6, November 2006 |
| Pages | pp 730-748 |
| Keywords | Friendship ; Longitudinal surveys ; Comparison ; Netherlands ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | There were three main research questions for this study. First, how long have adults in the Netherlands and the US known members of their non-kin networks? Second, what are the predictors of long-standing non-kin relationships? Third, which predictors are recognisable in both societies? The data came from the NESTOR-LSN (Living Arrangements and Social Networks of Older Adults) survey (3229 adults aged 55-89 in the Netherlands) and from the Northern California Community Study (1050 people, with 225 respondents aged 55-91). In both countries, the duration of non-kin relationships was related to the absence of network disturbing variables (e.g. the number of years since the last move), network-sustaining variables (e.g. distance to non-kin), and other network properties (e.g. homogeneity). Nationally based differences were also observed, e.g. having a car was related to stable relationships only in the US, and the social integrative functions of exclusive friendships were elicited only in Europe. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070115217 A |
| Classmark | DS:SX: 3J: 48: 76H: 7T |
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