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Social Networks among Elderly Women: Implications for Health Education Practice

dc.contributor.authorIsrael, Barbara A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorHogue, Carolen_US
dc.contributor.authorGorton, Annen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-13T19:18:56Z
dc.date.available2010-04-13T19:18:56Z
dc.date.issued1983en_US
dc.identifier.citationIsrael, Barbara; Hogue, Carol; Gorton, Ann (1983). "Social Networks among Elderly Women: Implications for Health Education Practice." Health Education & Behavior 10(3-4): 173-203. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/67277>en_US
dc.identifier.issn1090-1981en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/67277
dc.description.abstractThe general aim of the present study was to examine and help clarify the properties of the distinctions between social networks and social support, their relationship to health status, and their impli cations for health education practice. More specifically, a secondary data analysis was conducted with 130 white women, community resi dents, between the ages of 60 and 68, which examined the relationship between psychological well-being and social network characteristics. These characteristics are categorized along three broad dimensions: structure—links in the overall network (size and density); interaction— nature of the linkages themselves (frequency, homogeneity, content, reciprocity, intensity, and dispersion); and functions which networks provide (affective support and instrumental support). A combination was made and relative strength investigated of several network char acteristics representative of the quality of interactions (i. e., reciprocal affective support, intensity, and affective support) and those repre senting the quantity of interactions (i.e., size, density, and frequency).en_US
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dc.publisherSage Publicationsen_US
dc.titleSocial Networks among Elderly Women: Implications for Health Education Practiceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelEducationen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPublic Healthen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHealth Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michigan Department of Health Behaviorand Health Education School of Public Healthen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherDuke Universityen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherWayne State Universityen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/67277/2/10.1177_109019818301000304.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/109019818301000304en_US
dc.identifier.sourceHealth Education & Behavioren_US
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