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| Welfare participation and self-esteem in later life | | Author(s) | Neal Krause |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 36, no 5, October 1996 |
| Pages | pp 665-673 |
| Keywords | Self esteem ; Community care ; Social security benefits ; Usage [services] ; Sexual equality ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this study was to see whether enrolling in a US public assistance program is related to changes in self-esteem in later life. A theoretical framework is developed that specifies that older men will be more likely to experience decline in self-esteem following enrolment in a welfare programme. Data from a nationwide longitudinal study reveal that while receiving welfare benefits is unrelated to self-esteem for older people in general, older men experience a substantial decline in their sense of self-worth. In contrast, significant effects fail to emerge among older women. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970528011 A |
| Classmark | DPA: PA: JH: QLD: TM8: 3J: 7T |
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