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| Voluntary social participation and health | | Author(s) | Frank W Young, Nina Glasgow |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 20, no 3, May 1998 |
| Pages | pp 339-362 |
| Keywords | Voluntary work [elderly] ; Recreation ; Health [elderly] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The importance of participation in voluntary formal associations for enhancing health is supported by four kinds of evidence. Firstly, seven prospective studies of social relations and mortality show the independent effect of formal social participation, net of informal ties. Secondly, conceptual analysis demonstrates that voluntary formal associations constitute a separate class of social causation. Thirdly, factor analysis of data from a sample of 629 older people in non-metropolitan areas of the US, identified by two types of formal social participation: "instrumental" as in associations that are community oriented, and "expressive", as in those that exist for the benefit of the members. Lastly, regression analysis showed that the instrumental participation factor is linked, net of controls, to the perceived health of both men and women, whereas the expressive factor predicts for women only. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980611405 A |
| Classmark | GHH: H: CC: 7T |
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