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| Gendered trajectories of support from close relationships from middle to late life | | Author(s) | Jing Liao, Anne McMunn, Shannon T Mejia, Eric J Brunner |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 38, no 4, April 2018 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, April 2018 |
| Pages | pp 746-765 |
| Source | http://www.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Older men ; Older women ; Middle aged ; Civil servants ; Personal relationships ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | The authors investigate gender differences in trajectories of support from close relationships among adults in the transition from middle to old age, taking into account stability and change in the identity of the closest persons. Multi-level modelling was used to estimate gendered age trajectories in three dimensions of support: emotional support, practical support and negative encounters, which were repeatedly measured over ten years amongst 6,718 particiants in the Whitehall II study (from 20 London-based civil service departments). Men were more likely than women to nominate their partner as their closest person throughout follow-up, whereas women drew support from a wider range of sources. Gender differences were only evident in age-related trajectories of emotional support, and were contingent on stability and change in the closest relationships. Men reported increased emotional support from closest relationships with age, except for those who had transitioned out of a partnership. For women, emotional support was stable among those whose closest person remained consistent, but decreased among those who changed their closest person. Further, emotional support increased with age for all married men, which was only the case for married women who nominated their partner as their closest person. This analysis highlights gender-specific trajectories of perceived support from adults' closest relationships in late life, and indicates more pronounced socio-emotional selectivity in older men than women. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180323204 A |
| Classmark | BC: BD: SE: XM8: DS: F: 3J |
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