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Social self-efficacy and short-term variability in social relationships
— the MacArthur successful aging studies | | Author(s) | Frieder R Lang, David L Featherman, John R Nesselroade |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 12, no 4, December 1997 |
| Pages | pp 657-666 |
| Keywords | Self esteem ; Personal relationships ; Social contacts ; Short term ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Dealing with others entails both stability and short-term variability of the functions and outcomes of social relationships. The authors argue that patterns of short-term intra-individual variability in social relationships and self-efficacy beliefs contribute interpretable information about social adaptation. On the basis of 23 repeated weekly measurements of a sample of 32 participants ages 56 to 88 years, the authors examined the extent to which fluctuations in perceived relational outcomes are related to fluctuations of social efficacy. Results showed that individuals differ systematically in respect of the extent to which they experience and display fluctuations in self-efficacy and availability of social relationships. Moreover, when individuals perceive others to be available across time, social self-efficacy beliefs are stronger and fluctuate less across time. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980225003 A |
| Classmark | DPA: DS: TOA: 4P: 49: 7T |
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