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Social relations and health assessments among older people
— do the effects of integration and social contributions vary cross-culturally? | | Author(s) | Ya-Ping Su, Kenneth F Ferraro |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 52B, no 1, January 1997 |
| Pages | pp S27-S36 |
| Keywords | Living in the community ; Participation ; Integration ; Social contacts ; Health [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Cross national surveys ; Korea ; Malaysia ; Philippines ; Polynesia. |
| Annotation | Research on health assessments has shown the importance of social relations as a factor influencing health, especially among older people. Drawing on sociological theories of social integration and social exchange, this research examines how these two domains influence assessed health. This study also uses a cross-national sample of 3,407 non-institutionalised older people from the Republic of Korea, Fiji, Malaysia and the Philippines to determine if modernisation conditions the relationships between social relations and health. Results indicate that social integration has a positive effect on subjective health assessments in all nations, whereas social contributions are significant only in Korea. Findings suggest that health assessments by older people in the most modernised nations appear to be much more influenced by the contributions they make to the social order than is the case in nations which are less modernised. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980227013 A |
| Classmark | K4: TMB: TO: TOA: CC: 4C: 3K: 7DK: 7XA: 7XK: 7YP |
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