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Season's greetings
— adults' social contacts at the holiday season | | Author(s) | Karen L Fingerman, Patricia C Griffiths |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 14, no 2, June 1999 |
| Pages | pp 192-205 |
| Keywords | Social contacts ; Holidays ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Close friends and families play an important role in adults' lives, but little is known about the implications of infrequent or peripheral social ties that adults maintain. 87 adults aged from 24 to 87 (median 51.25 years) provided information about their holiday card networks. Participants completed surveys for up to 25 cards that they received during one holiday season (1,405 surveys completed) and provided the holiday greetings as well, if they were willing (for 1,152 cards). More than half of the cards received were from people whom participants did not consider to be close friends or family members, and whom they had not seen in over a year. Adults of all ages described emotional reactions to approximately one third of the cards they received. Younger adults tended to view their holiday greetings as a means of maintaining or building new social ties, whereas older people were more likely to view their holiday greetings as a link to their personal past. Receiving a greater number of holiday cards and receiving cards from close social contacts were associated with increased feelings of social embeddedness. Similarities and differences between peripheral ties and close social ties are considered. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990825212 A |
| Classmark | TOA: HV: 3F: 7T |
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