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- Individuals are seen as coproducers of their social environments who actively manage the social resources that contribute to their positive aging. The regulation of social relationships reflects adaptive mechanisms of deliberate acquisition, maintenance, transformation, or discontinuation of relationships within the individual's personal network.
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Apr 12, 2022 · Social relations encompass a complex and dynamic set of characteristics that have been shown to distinctly affect health and quality of life across the lifespan and especially in older adulthood. In this chapter we begin with a brief review of several prominent theories of social relations.
- Neika Sharifian, Ketlyne Sol, Laura B. Zahodne, Toni C. Antonucci
- 10.1016/B978-0-12-818697-8.00016-9
- 2022
- 2022
- Abstract
- Life Span Psychology of Life Management
- Age-Related Differences of Social Relationships Across Adulthood
- Effects of Personality Traits on Social Relationships
- Motivation of Relationship Regulation
- Subjective Well-Being and Relationship Regulation
- Synopsis
- Key Directions For Future Research
Decision Editor: Margie E. Lachman, PhD IN the past decade, scholars of social and behavioral gerontology have suggested that individuals actively influence the course and outcomes of their development until late in life (e.g., Baltes and Carstensen 1996; Filipp 1996; Heckhausen 1999). From this perspective, social relationships contribute in two w...
Life span psychology has emphasized that development inextricably involves both gains and losses. This implies the perspective that the life-long dynamics of developmental gains and losses involve "adaptive processes of acquisition, maintenance, transformation, and attrition in psychological structures and functions" (Baltes, Staudinger, and Linden...
There is robust evidence that in the second half of life, the number of social relationships decreases gradually. Much of the change in personal networks is associated with social losses due to widowhood and the illness and death of other network members (for a review, see Lang and Carstensen 1998). Despite the findings on such change, there is con...
Empirical studies have consistently revealed effects of stable personality characteristics on social relationships at least in adolescence and early adulthood (e.g., Asendorpf and Wilpers 1998). Throughout their lives, individuals seem to regulate their social relationships in congruence with their personality dispositions. However, because persona...
According to socioemotional selectivity theory, the regulation of social relationships across adulthood is associated with the extent to which individuals perceive their future time as expansive or limited.
There is much agreement in the research literature that social relationships contribute to well-being and functioning throughout the life course (e.g., Ryff and Singer 2001). It appears that the effects of positive relationships on well-being are less pronounced than the detrimental effects of negative relationship quality on well-being (for an ove...
It was argued that the management and regulation of social relationships in later adulthood is associated with age-specific and motivational determinants such as future time perspective and resource loss. The conclusions of this research can be summarized as follows: 1. Age-related changes or differences in social relationships reflect to some exte...
There are two key questions that raise challenges to future research on the regulation of social relationships in later adulthood. The first one relates to the issue of how the regulation of social relationships reflects and affects person–environment transactions in later life. The second issue is associated with the question of what the motivatio...
- Frieder R. Lang
- 2001
This is the first national study to examine disparities in loneliness and social relationships by sexual orientation in late adulthood in the United States. Background: Prior studies have shown that lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals often struggle with social relationships across the life course, likely because of stigma related to ...
- Ning Hsieh, Hui Liu
- 10.1111/jomf.12681
- 2021
- 2021/02
Feb 1, 2011 · Why are Social Relationships Better in Later Life? The greater positivity and decreased negativity in late life relationships is well documented, but a cohesive framework for understanding why relationships improve is not well articulated in the personal relationships literature.
- Gloria Luong, Susan T. Charles, Karen L. Fingerman
- 2011
Jan 10, 2022 · Empirical evidence about the development of social relationships across adulthood into late life continues to accumulate, but theoretical development has lagged behind. The Differential Investment of Resources (DIRe) model integrates these empirical advances.
Jul 5, 2021 · Social relationships are crucial to effective functioning in adulthood, especially in late life as older adults increasingly rely on their network members for support in the face of physical and cognitive declines (Antonucci et al., 2014; Pinquart & Sorensen, 2000; Windsor et al., 2012).
Social relationships get better with age. Older adults report greater satisfaction and fewer negative experiences in their social interactions than do younger adults (e.g., Birditt & Fingerman, 2003).
