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| Reciprocal effects between health and social support in older adults' relationships with their children and friends | | Author(s) | Jung-Hwa Ha, Sang Kyoung Kahng, Namkee Choi |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 39, no 2, February 2017 |
| Publisher | Sage, February 2017 |
| Pages | pp 300-321 |
| Source | journals.sagepub.com/home/roa |
| Keywords | Parents ; Children [offspring] ; Family relationships ; Friendship ; Health [elderly] ; Family care ; Longitudinal surveys ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The longitudinal reciprocal effects between health and social support in older adults' relationships with their children and friends were examined. Data are for 3,760 individuals aged 50+ from the 2006 and 2010 waves of the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS). The focus was on three specific aspects of social support: frequency of contact, positive interactions, and negative interactions. The authors used auto-regressive cross-lagged models to examine the bidirectional effects between social support and health. When the bidirectional effects between health and social support were simultaneously examined, the longitudinal effect of social support on health was not significant. In contrast, older adults' poor health was associated with decreased contact and decreased positive interactions with friends, as well as with increased negative interactions with their adult children and friends. The findings suggest that older adults' poor health has a negative impact on their social relationships, and that such effect surpasses the impact of social relationships on health. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170324208 A |
| Classmark | SR: SS: DS:SJ: DS:SX: CC: P6:SJ: 3J: 49: 7T |
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