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Rethinking Social Relationships in Adulthood: The Differential Investment of Resources Model
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. The model defines the investment of time...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8978474/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35001730 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10888683211067035 |
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description | 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. The model defines the investment of time and energy into social ties varying in terms of emotional closeness and kinship as the core mechanism explaining the formation and maintenance of social networks. Individual characteristics, acting as capacities, motivations, and skills, determine the amount, direction, and efficacy of the investment. The context (e.g., the living situation) affects the social opportunity structure, the amount of time and energy available, and individual characteristics. Finally, the model describes two feedback loops: (a) social capital affecting the individual’s living situation and (b) different types of ties impacting individual characteristics via social exchanges, social influences, and social evaluations. The proposed model will provide a theoretical basis for future research and hypothesis testing. |
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spelling | pubmed-89784742022-04-05 Rethinking Social Relationships in Adulthood: The Differential Investment of Resources Model Huxhold, Oliver Fiori, Katherine L. Windsor, Tim Pers Soc Psychol Rev Articles 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. The model defines the investment of time and energy into social ties varying in terms of emotional closeness and kinship as the core mechanism explaining the formation and maintenance of social networks. Individual characteristics, acting as capacities, motivations, and skills, determine the amount, direction, and efficacy of the investment. The context (e.g., the living situation) affects the social opportunity structure, the amount of time and energy available, and individual characteristics. Finally, the model describes two feedback loops: (a) social capital affecting the individual’s living situation and (b) different types of ties impacting individual characteristics via social exchanges, social influences, and social evaluations. The proposed model will provide a theoretical basis for future research and hypothesis testing. SAGE Publications 2022-01-10 2022-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8978474/ /pubmed/35001730 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10888683211067035 Text en © 2022 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Articles Huxhold, Oliver Fiori, Katherine L. Windsor, Tim Rethinking Social Relationships in Adulthood: The Differential Investment of Resources Model |
title | Rethinking Social Relationships in Adulthood: The
Differential Investment of Resources Model |
title_full | Rethinking Social Relationships in Adulthood: The
Differential Investment of Resources Model |
title_fullStr | Rethinking Social Relationships in Adulthood: The
Differential Investment of Resources Model |
title_full_unstemmed | Rethinking Social Relationships in Adulthood: The
Differential Investment of Resources Model |
title_short | Rethinking Social Relationships in Adulthood: The
Differential Investment of Resources Model |
title_sort | rethinking social relationships in adulthood: the
differential investment of resources model |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8978474/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35001730 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10888683211067035 |
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