| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| Longitudinal changes in social networks, health and wellbeing among older Koreans | | Author(s) | Borin Kim, Sojung Park, Toni C Antonucci |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 36, no 9, October 2016 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, October 2016 |
| Pages | pp 1915-1936 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Social contacts ; Personal relationships ; Health [elderly] ; Well being ; Longitudinal surveys ; Korea. |
| Annotation | This study investigates the changes in social network types among older adults in South Korea; and it examines whether, and to what extent, these changes influence their health and psychological well-being. Data were obtained from the Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing. The sample was restricted to respondents aged over 65 years of age who participated in both the 2006 and 2008 surveys (N = 3,501). The social network types for both years were derived by Latent Class Analysis. Changes in network types over time were then identified. A series of multivariate regression analyses were conducted to examine the effects of social network changes on self-rated health, depressive symptoms and life satisfaction. Restricted, Family, Friend and Diverse network types were derived from each wave of the study. Although the direction of social network changes was not always towards the Restricted type, the Restricted network was the most prevalent and stable type among older Koreans. Older adults who remained in, or made a transition to, restricted types of social networks were more likely to have poor self-rated health, higher levels of depressive symptoms and lower levels of life satisfaction. This study adds to the limited body of literature on longitudinal network typology, and it expands older people's knowledge of social network types in diverse social and cultural contexts. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-161011007 A |
| Classmark | TOA: DS: CC: D:F:5HH: 3J: 7DK |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|