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A Study of Family Support, Friendship, and Psychological Well-Being among Older Women in Hong Kong

Abstract

The "dual-channel" hypothesis (Lawton, 1996), which suggests the dual-antecedent pattern for positive and negative aspects of psychological well-being, was tested by examining the differential relationships between objective and subjective measures of family support (family contact, family quality, perceived importance of family) and friendship (friends support, friends quality, perceived importance of friendship) to two facets of psychological …

Authors

Siu O-L; Phillips DR

Journal

The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 299–319

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Publication Date

12 2002

DOI

10.2190/2k1w-hwlp-jkd5-lrp6

ISSN

0091-4150