Older Adults' Social Support Giving and Their Psychological Health: Testing Moderating Effects of Giving in Familial and Non-Familial Context

K. Hazel Kwon, Arizona State University
Shin-Il Moon, University of Buffalo

Abstract

The current study explores the impact of support giving as a moderator between receiving support and older adults' psychological health. The study analyzed the data from the project Changing Lives of Older Couples, including a sample of 1,532 married individuals from Detroit Cosmopolitan areas. The findings suggest that receiving-support have differentiated effects depending on relational types. While giving-support does not show the conditional effect, it plays a moderator in reducing depression and anxiety especially at the low level of received support, suggesting the importance of social integration on older adults' psychological health.

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Iowa Journal of Communication

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Kwon, K. Hazel and Moon, Shin-Il (2012) "Older Adults' Social Support Giving and Their Psychological Health: Testing Moderating Effects of Giving in Familial and Non-Familial Context," Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 44: No. 1, Article 8.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol44/iss1/8

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