Social Role Identities among Older Adults in a Continuing Care Retirement Community

Basing their hypotheses on identity and life-course theories, the authors examine the social role identities of a group of older adults (N = 92) both before and after their move into a new continuing care retirement community (CCRC) to investigate whether this transition is linked to changes in soci...

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Veröffentlicht in:Research on aging 2000-09, Vol.22 (5), p.559-579
Hauptverfasser: Moen, Phyllis, Erickson, Mary Ann, Dempster-McClain, Donna
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Basing their hypotheses on identity and life-course theories, the authors examine the social role identities of a group of older adults (N = 92) both before and after their move into a new continuing care retirement community (CCRC) to investigate whether this transition is linked to changes in social role identities. The congruence between actually enacting a role and choosing it as a role identity varies with the role. Current role behaviors and satisfaction predict role identity for two institutionalized, public roles (volunteer and church/synagogue member) but are less related to two more private roles (parent and friend). Cluster analysis reveals a typology of three discrete groups, based on social role identities: an involved group with a high number of role identities, a group focused on family roles identities, and a group focused on the friend role identity. The social role identities of the three groups changed in different ways after moving to the CCRC.
ISSN:0164-0275
1552-7573
DOI:10.1177/0164027500225005