The Importance of Friendship and Family Support in Adaptation to Chronic Vision Impairment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12444641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joann P Reinhardt (0000-0002-3117-9862, Lighthouse Guild, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 51B |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | P268-P278 |
| Publication date | 1996-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journals of Gerontology Series B (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1079-5014 • E-ISSN: 1758-5368 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/geronb/51b.5.p268 |
| PMID | 8809003 |
| OpenAlex | W2118073474 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 6 |
The importance of friendship and family support in adaptation for 241 elders experiencing age-related vision loss was examined. Adaptation was operationalized with two global measures of psychological well-being (life satisfaction, depressive symptoms) and a domain-specific measure, adaptation to vision loss. Hierarchical regression analyses tested the effects of sociodemographic, vision, health, and functional disability variables in the first step, family support quality in the second step, and friendship support quality in the third step. Variables entered at each step contributed significant portions of explained variance in outcome variables. Thus, the importance of friendship support, independent of family support, in adaptation to chronic impairment was demonstrated. The effect of relationship type and gender on multiple support components was also assessed. Scores for family support were higher than those for friend support on almost all components. Close relationships were perceived as providing greater attachment in females and greater instrumental assistance and social integration in males
Adaptation (eye · Developmental psychology · Family support · Friendship · Life satisfaction · Multilevel model · Operationalization · Quality of life (healthcare · Social support · Elder Abuse and Neglect · Medicine · Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies · Psychology · Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery · Clinical Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 21 |
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2024 (27) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |