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The Effects of Familial Social Support Relationships on Identity Meaning in Older Adults: A Longitudinal Investigation

This study aimed to examine whether social support promotes identity meaning among older adults. We hypothesized that when two spouses exchange social support, their sense of marital identity is enhanced. Among older adults, parental identity may be more strongly enhanced when parents provide social...

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Autores principales: Toyoshima, Aya, Nakahara, Jun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8185044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34113289
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.650051
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description This study aimed to examine whether social support promotes identity meaning among older adults. We hypothesized that when two spouses exchange social support, their sense of marital identity is enhanced. Among older adults, parental identity may be more strongly enhanced when parents provide social support to their children rather than receive social support from them. We conducted a longitudinal survey of 355 older adults (240 men and 115 women aged >60 years), who were assessed four times over 2 years. First, we confirmed the relationship between social support and identity meaning using an autoregressive path model. Second, we examined the effect of social support on the trajectory of role identities in a growth curve model. The intercepts of receiving support and providing support were significantly associated with the intercept of marital identity. In addition, the intercept of identity meaning for parents correlated with the intercept of providing support to their children but not with that of receiving support from their children. Social support between family members promotes role identities in family relationships. In particular, providing support to children correlates with parental roles which connect to subjective well-being.
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spelling pubmed-81850442021-06-09 The Effects of Familial Social Support Relationships on Identity Meaning in Older Adults: A Longitudinal Investigation Toyoshima, Aya Nakahara, Jun Front Psychol Psychology This study aimed to examine whether social support promotes identity meaning among older adults. We hypothesized that when two spouses exchange social support, their sense of marital identity is enhanced. Among older adults, parental identity may be more strongly enhanced when parents provide social support to their children rather than receive social support from them. We conducted a longitudinal survey of 355 older adults (240 men and 115 women aged >60 years), who were assessed four times over 2 years. First, we confirmed the relationship between social support and identity meaning using an autoregressive path model. Second, we examined the effect of social support on the trajectory of role identities in a growth curve model. The intercepts of receiving support and providing support were significantly associated with the intercept of marital identity. In addition, the intercept of identity meaning for parents correlated with the intercept of providing support to their children but not with that of receiving support from their children. Social support between family members promotes role identities in family relationships. In particular, providing support to children correlates with parental roles which connect to subjective well-being. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8185044/ /pubmed/34113289 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.650051 Text en Copyright © 2021 Toyoshima and Nakahara. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_short The Effects of Familial Social Support Relationships on Identity Meaning in Older Adults: A Longitudinal Investigation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8185044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34113289
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.650051
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