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Participation in socially-productive activities, reciprocity and wellbeing in later life
— baseline results in England | | Author(s) | Anne McMunn, James Nazroo, Morten Wahrendorf |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 29, part 5, July 2009 |
| Pages | pp 765-782 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Unpaid work [elderly] ; Voluntary work [elderly] ; Participation ; Well being ; Cross sectional surveys ; Longitudinal surveys ; England. |
| Annotation | Is participation in social activities associated with well-being among post-retirement people in England; and if so, are these relationships explained by the reciprocal nature of these activities? Cross-sectional analysis of relationships between social activities (including paid work, volunteering and caring) and well-being (quality of life, life satisfaction and depression) was conducted among participants of one wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) who were of state pension age or older. Participants in paid or voluntary work generally had more favourable well-being than those who did not participate in these activities. Caring was not associated with well-being, although female carers were less likely to be depressed than non-carers. Carers, volunteers and those in paid work who felt adequately rewarded for their activities had better well-being than those who were not participating in these activities, while those who did not feel rewarded did not differ from non-participants. These results point to the need to increase the reward that older people receive from their productive activities, particularly in relation to caring work. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090611006 A |
| Classmark | GH: GHH: TMB: D:F:5HH: 3KB: 3J: 82 |
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