The family and friends of rural aged as a natural support system

Mercier, Joyce McDonough; Powers, Edward A.

doi:10.1002/1520-6629(198410)12:4<334::aid-jcop2290120406>3.0.co;2-y

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“…Kivett (1985) suggested that rural elders interact somewhat more frequently with friends and neighbors, as well as kin, than do urban elders. Mercier and Powers (1984) found that rural widows were more likely than urban widows to receive emotional support, advice, and transportation from their children and there is some evidence that rural widows are more likely to have frequent face-to-face contact with siblings and telephone contact with children (Matthews, 1988). Scott and Roberto (1987) also reported that "rural residents both gave and received more help with illness with children and friends" (p. 448) than urban elders, but they commented that differences were small and inconsistent across types of aid.…”

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The Health Status, Health Services Utilization, and Support Networks of the Rural Elderly: A Decade Review*

Dwyer¹,

Lee²,

Coward³

1990

The Journal of Rural Health

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Research from the 1980s on several dimensions of health and health care among the rural elderly is reviewed. Following a brief discussion of the demographic patterns and life conditions of the rural elderly, the current state of knowledge regarding health status, health services utilization, and the potential for informal and familial care of the elderly is examined. The review concentrates on studies that include comparisons between rural and urban populations and/or control for additional variables that are known to covary with residence. Such analyses permit the documentation of the effects of residential location on health indicators net of other factors. The review concludes that the rural elderly are relatively disadvantaged in terms of both health status and access to health care services, and have little if any advantage over the urban elderly in their access to informal sources of care. Following the review, an agenda for future research is identified.

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Section: Informal and Family Care Of The Rural Elderlymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Health Status, Health Services Utilization, and Support Networks of the Rural Elderly: A Decade Review*

Dwyer¹,

Lee²,

Coward³

1990

The Journal of Rural Health

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“…Regression analysis for reduced path model with mothers-in-law as support recipients The primary purpose of this study is to investigate how mid-life women perceive their relationships with their mothers and mothers-in-law and how this perception is affected by providing social support to their mothers and mothers-in-law. Previoxis research in the area of social support has focused on positive effects for the support recipient and how to best utilize these supports (Mercier & Powers, 1984, Russell & Cutrona, 1991, or factors affecting instrumental support (Whitbeck, Hoyt, & Huck, 1994;Silverstein, Parrot & Bengtson, 1995). Much caregiving research has focused on stress involved for spousal or daughter caregivers Chappel, 1990;Franks & Stephens, 1992).…”

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Support given by women to their mothers and mothers-in-law and relationship quality over time

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This study investigates relationship quality of women with their mothers and mothers-in-law and how relationship quality is affected by providing instrumental support. This longitudinal study extends the research by exploring the effects of support giving over time on the daughter/mother relationship and on the daughter-in-law/ mother-in-law relationship. Based upon social exchange theory and role theory, the central hypothesis for this study is instrumental support given and perceived demands will erode relationship quality over time. As support giving increases, social exchange theory suggests that the support giver feels an imbalance in rewards verses costs and this perception negatively affects the relationship. Role theory also makes the argimient that as demands of a particular role increase, role overload from that one role can occur. The resulting stress can negatively affect relationship quality over time. Subjects were 252 white, married women, drawn from three waves of a larger ongoing research project. The Iowa Youth and Families Project conducted at Iowa State University. The women were members of families with children, living in rural Iowa. Using t-tests, means of mother related variables were compared with means of mother-in-law related variables. Change in relationship quality over time with both mothers and mothers-in-law were also assessed. Pearson product moment correlations were used to determine the direction and strength of the relationships between variables. Ordinary least vii squares regression was used to estimate coefficients for path analyses. Results indicated that although subjects provided mothers with more instrumental support than they did mothers-in-law, mothers were not perceived as any more demanding than mothers-in-law. While relationship quality with mothers was higher at both times than relationship quality with mothers-in-law, relationship quality with mothers and mothers-inlaw were stable over time. Giving instrumental support did not affect relationship quality with mothers nor with mothers-in-law over time. However, demands of both mothers and mothers-in-law were associated with declining relationship quality over time. Giving instrumental support to mother was unexpectedly associated with lower relationship quality with mother-in-law. This implies the occurrence of scapegoating of mothers-in-law. The data strongly suggest that it is not the amount of support given, but rather the perception of demands made by support recipients that adversely affects relationship quality over time. recipient to meet their goals and deal with their environmental demands" (Antonucci, 1985). House & Kahn (1985) divide the concept of social support into four components. The first, emotional support, concentrates on feeling loved, liked and empathy. The second, instrumental assistance, focuses on services and goods received from another. The third centers on information received about the environment Lastly, is appraisal, or information relevant to self-evaluation. Examining House and Kahn'...

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The relationship of family proximity and social support to the mental health of older rural adults: The Appalachian context

McCulloch

1995

Journal of Aging Studies

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The family and friends of rural aged as a natural support system

Cited by 8 publications

References 38 publications

The Health Status, Health Services Utilization, and Support Networks of the Rural Elderly: A Decade Review*

The Health Status, Health Services Utilization, and Support Networks of the Rural Elderly: A Decade Review*

Support given by women to their mothers and mothers-in-law and relationship quality over time

The relationship of family proximity and social support to the mental health of older rural adults: The Appalachian context

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