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Parent-Child Relationships During the Transition to Adulthood
(SAGE Periodicals Press, 1995)
This article uses a panel study of children and mothers to examine how parents and children conceptualize, perceive, and report on their relationships with each other during the children's transition to adulthood years. ...
Stress, Social Support, and Negative Interaction in Later Life
(Sage Publications, 1991)
The aim of this research is to examine the impact of stress on supportive social relationships in later life. Although a number of researchers propose that exposure to life stress increases the amount of assistance provided ...
Measuring Religiosity in Later Life
(Sage Publications, 1993)
The purpose of this study is to devise and test a multidimensional measurement model of late life religiosity that is composed of three major components: organizational religiosity, subjective religiosity, and religious ...
Clarifying the Functions of Social Support in Later Life
(Sage Publications, 1994)
Research on the stress-buffering properties of social support contains a number of contradictory findings. At least part of this problem may be attributed to the fact that researchers have not developed a well-articulated ...
Stress and exercise among the Japanese elderly
(Elsevier, 1993-06)
This study seeks to replicate and extend research on the stress process by examining the relationships among stress, social support, physical exercise, and depressive symptoms with data provided by a recent nationwide ...
Declining inequality in schooling in Brazil and its effects on inequality in earnings
(Elsevier, 1991-11)
Household survey data demonstrate that Brazilian males born between 1925 and 1963 experienced steady increases in mean schooling and significant declines in schooling inequality. The variance in years of schooling increased ...
Assessing Change in Social Support During Late Life
(Sage Publications, 1999)
The purpose of this study is to evaluate change in 14 measures of social support with data provided by a nationwide longitudinal study of older adults. The findings reveal that fairly substantial change took place during ...
Stress, Religiosity, and Psychological Well-Being among Older Blacks
(Sage Publications, 1992)
The prominent position of the church in the Black community coupled with high levels of religious involvement among elderly Blacks suggests that religiosity may be an important coping resource for members of this minority ...