Social Support, Stressful Life Events and Life Satisfaction: Minority and Non-Minority Baby Boomers

Barragan, Cassandra

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“…Stress coping is also an integral part of life for aging Americans (Crosswell et al ., 2020; Mezuk et al ., 2017), probably more so for the aging baby boom generation (Barragan, 2017; Moschis and Mathur, 2007). Older Americans may face unique challenges to themselves and/or their family members, physically (e.g.…”

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Effect of stress coping strategies on comfort foods consumption: evidence from older Americans

Shen,

Liu

2024

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PurposeComfort foods consumption and linkages to stress coping strategies have received little attention in the business research on food products and services. This paper aims to explore comfort foods consumption among older Americans and how stress-coping strategies are related to their consumption frequency and variety of comfort foods.Design/methodology/approachOlder Americans aged 50–99 years (N = 1,428) in the Health and Retirement Study were surveyed on their frequency and variety of comfort foods consumption and their consumption coping strategies. Data were analyzed and regression models were estimated.FindingsDemographically, baby boomer, male, and non-Hispanic whites reported higher frequency and variety of comfort foods consumption. Comfort foods consumption in frequency and variety was significantly higher (lower) when “eat more” (“use alcohol”) was the endorsed coping strategy.Originality/valueResearch findings furthered research on the consumption of comfort foods among older American adults and added new insights into their coping behavior, both of which may help businesses be more targeted in serving comfort foods to the mature market and the public sector to tailor their services to older adults.

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