Close Relationships in Middle and Late Adulthood

Blieszner, Rosemary; Ogletree, Aaron M.

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“…This more nuanced approach to friendship research emerged from moving beyond laboratory experiments and broad surveys to using in-depth interviews, which fostered a focus on quality of friend interactions, not just quantity (Adams & Blieszner, 1994; Blieszner & Adams, 1992) and recognition that friends and interactions with friends involve individual characteristics that evoke differential responses according to individual preferences (Adams & Blieszner, 1995). As a result, research on friendship has flourished in recent decades, including studies of friendship in middle-age and beyond, yielding a wide-ranging literature on both traditional (e.g., emerging from face-to-face interactions) and innovative (e.g., formed via social media networking) aspects of friend ties in later life (Blieszner & Ogletree, 2018).…”

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“…Among the friendship and aging topics investigated, a prominent focus has been on the contributions of friends to psychological well-being (Blieszner, 1995; Blieszner & Ogletree, 2018). Late-life adults report liking and caring about their friends, laughing together and having fun, feeling satisfied with their relationships, being able to confide in each other, and reminding each other to stay healthy (Blieszner & Adams, 1992).…”

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Friendship in Later Life: A Research Agenda

Blieszner

Ogletree

Adams

2019

Innovation in Aging

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Friendship is a relationship that can endure across the entire lifespan, serving a vital role for sustaining social connectedness in late life when other relationships may become unavailable. This article begins with a description of the importance of studying friendship in late life and the benefits of friendship for older adults, pointing to the value of additional research for enhancing knowledge about this crucial bond. Next is discussion of theoretical approaches for conceptualizing friendship research, followed by identification of emerging areas of late-life friendship research and novel questions that investigators could explore fruitfully. We include a presentation of innovative research methods and existing national and international data sets that can advance late-life friendship research using large samples and cross-national comparisons. The final section advocates for development and assessment of interventions aimed at improving friendship and reducing social isolation among older adults.

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Friendship in Later Life: A Research Agenda

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Ogletree

Adams

2019

Innovation in Aging

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“…All participants reported higher levels of social goals (both approach and avoidance) in their very close relationships, followed by close, and finally by peripheral relationships. Based on the centrality of very close relationships for people's lives across adulthood (Blieszner, ; Feeney, ; Gable & Impett, ; Reis & Rusbult, ), this finding suggests that very close relationships are characterized by high levels of social goals, irrespective of the goal orientation towards approaching positive or avoiding negative outcomes. In other words, the more central a relationship is, the more are people motivated to achieve positive outcomes and also to avoid threats in these highly valuable relationships (see also Nikitin & Freund, ).…”

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Individual Differences in Habitual Social Goals and Daily Well–Being: The Role of Age and Relationship Closeness

Nikitin

Freund

2019

Eur J Pers

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There is a robust evidence that social approach goals (i.e. approach of positive social outcomes) have positive consequences and social avoidance goals (i.e. avoidance of negative social outcomes) have negative consequences for subjective well-being in young adulthood. Little is known about individual differences in social goals in later life. The current diary study with young (n = 212), middle-aged (n = 232), and older adults (n = 229) tested-and supported--the hypotheses that age (i) differentially predicts the strength of habitual approach and avoidance goals in close and peripheral relationships and (ii) moderates the relation of approach and avoidance goals in peripheral (but not close) relationships and daily outcomes (subjective well-being, subjective health, and satisfaction with social encounters). Older adults compared to younger adults reported higher levels of avoidance goals in peripheral (but not close) relationships. Younger adults who reported high levels of approach goals and older adults who reported high levels of avoidance goals in peripheral relationships experienced the most positive daily outcomes. In addition, social goals moderated some of the associations between (positive and negative) daily interactions and daily outcomes. Results underscore the importance of the closeness of social partners for individual differences in social goals across adulthood.

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“…Dva prediktora (ekstraverzija i negativna valenca) daju značajne doprinose predikciji kvaliteta odnosa sa majkom, što može biti s jedne strane odraz uloge majke u životu odraslih, a sa druge strane karakterističnog afektivnog pristupa žena odnosima. Majka je dominantna figura vezivanja u porodici tokom celog života, i pored činjenice da odraslo doba menja porodične odnose (Blieszner, 2006). Sada je potrebno odnos sa majkom održavati na ravni više partnerskog odnosa, koji podrazumeva uzajamni trud i aktivno održavanje bliskosti i intimnosti (Noack & Buhl, 2004).…”

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Dimenzije Afektivnog Vezivanja I Osobine Ličnosti Kao Korelati Kvaliteta Bliskih Odnosa

Kuruzović

Mihić

1970

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Istraživanjem se razmatrao značaj personalnih korelata kvaliteta bliskih odnosa u odraslom dobu. Postavilo se pitanje u kojoj meri osobine ličnosti i afektivna vezanost doprinose njihovom kvalitetu. Istraživanje je realizovano 2015. godine u Novom Sadu na uzorku od 400 ispitanika oba pola, uzrasta od 19 do 51 godine, putem mernih instrumenata: Inventar mreže socijalnih odnosa, Velikih pet plus dva, Upitnik za procenu afektivne vezanosti. Modeli hijerarhijske regresije za kvalitet bliskih odnosa (p < .01) ukazuju na značajnost pojedinih osobina ličnosti i dimenzija afektivne vezanosti. U najslabijem slučaju, pretpostavljeni model objašnjava 5% varijanse kvaliteta odnosa sa ocem. Osobina ekstraverzija je značajni korelat većine bliskih odnosa (najniža prediktorska snaga za odnos sa ocem i partnerom β = .13). Slede ju negativna valenca i savesnost, dok se afektivna vezanost pokazuje značajnom u slučaju odnosa sa braćom/sestrama. Različiti korelati ličnosti i afektivne vezanosti se pokazuju značajni za različite bliske odnose što je protumačeno razlikama po pitanju mehanizama funkcionisanja bliskih odnosa i njihove uloge i funkcija u životu pojedinaca.

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Close Relationships in Middle and Late Adulthood

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Friendship in Later Life: A Research Agenda

Friendship in Later Life: A Research Agenda

Individual Differences in Habitual Social Goals and Daily Well–Being: The Role of Age and Relationship Closeness

Dimenzije Afektivnog Vezivanja I Osobine Ličnosti Kao Korelati Kvaliteta Bliskih Odnosa

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