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| Formal and informal volunteer activity and spousal caregiving among older adults | | Author(s) | Namkee G Choi, Jeffrey A Burr, Jan E Mutchler |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 29, no 2, March 2007 |
| Pages | pp 99-124 |
| Keywords | Voluntary work [elderly] ; Spouses as carers ; Social roles ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | On the basis of data from the 1998 and 2000 waves of the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS), two alternative hypotheses were tested concerning role overload or role extension, when applied to the relationship between volunteering and spousal caregiving in older married people. Spousal caregiving was not significantly associated with the likelihood of formal or informal volunteering for men. However, female caregivers were found to be less likely than non-caregivers to have engaged in formal or informal volunteering to a certain extent, thus lending partial support to the role overload hypothesis. Functional health status and other human and cultural capital resources were significant predictors of both formal and informal volunteering for both men and women. Future studies need to examine in more depth the effect of spousal caregiving and volunteering, taking caregiver burden and stress into consideration, to more fully understand these two types of productive activity in later life. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070510213 A |
| Classmark | GHH: P6:SN: TM5: 49: 7T |
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