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Strains of singlehood in later life
— do race and gender matter? | | Author(s) | Tetyana Pudrovska, Scott Schieman, Deborah Carr |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 61B, no 6, November 2006 |
| Pages | pp S315-S322 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Single persons ; Widows ; Widowers ; Divorced persons ; Ethnic groups ; Older men ; Older women ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Using data from a sub-sample of 530 unmarried older people in the District of Columbia (DC) and Maryland (MD), the authors examined the interactive effects of marital status, gender and race on strain for widowed, divorced and the never married. Divorced and widowed people reported higher single strain than those who had never married, although the magnitude of these effects varied considerably by race and gender. Never-married White women reported higher levels of single strain than their male counterparts. White widows and widowers exhibited higher strain than widowed Black adults. Black women uniformly fared better than White women, whereas divorced and never-married Black men did not differ from their White peers in terms of single strain. Older people's psychological adjustment to singlehood reduces patterns of gender and race stratification and socialisation over the life course. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070216206 A |
| Classmark | SQ: SP: SPA: SOJ: TK: BC: BD: 48: 7T |
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