Sentences with phrase «informal social participation»

Specifically, we find a positive relationship between recent widowhood and informal social participation.

The final goal of this study was to test the robustness of the relationships between widowhood and formal and informal social participation as well as formal and informal volunteerism.

Controlling for previous levels of social participation also significantly increased the explanatory power of the model; more than 50 % of the overall variance was explained for both formal and informal social participation.

As the stated goal was to attempt a quasi-replication of the Utz and colleagues» findings, the relationships that were reproduced in these analyses included the significant relationship between widowhood and greater informal social participation, as well as between gender and informal social participation.

Specifically, the relationship between gender, age, education, and homeownership and informal social participation disappears.

Variables that remain significantly related to informal social participation include widowhood (b =.671, p <.001), extraversion (b =.058, p <.05), and race (b =.511, p <.05).

These data demonstrate that in two separate samples, widowed individuals reported a higher level of informal social participation than did non-widows, and widowed women were more likely to report higher levels of informal social participation than were widowed men.

Our analyses identified additional significant relationships between informal social participation and age, education, homeownership, extraversion, and no children.

When prior participation was added to the model, the adjusted R2 for informal social participation increases from.14 in Model 2 to.58 (p <.001) in Model 3.

In addition to informal social participation, analyses of formal social participation and the identified variables revealed a number of differences from the Utz and colleagues» findings.

This indicates an increase in both formal and informal social participation regardless of the level of social participation prior to the widowhood event.

Prior informal social participation is also strongly related to current informal social participation (b =.332, p <.001).

In addition, it must be noted that although many demographic variables lose their significant relationship to both formal and informal social participation, widowhood retains a strongly significant relationship to both types of social participation.

It would appear that controlling for prior participation increases the variance accounted for in the models of both formal and informal social participation.

We are guided by Utz and colleagues (2002), who examined the impact that widowhood had on both formal and informal social participation by using data from the Changing Lives of Older Couples (CLOC) study.

Not exact matches

It will cost some money to do these activities, i.e., social events for the partners, associates and administrative support staff; firm dinner; picnic; participation in a «law firm sports league;» informal weekly lunches for partners and associates in a conference room that encourages all lawyers to get together; etc., but in the long run, it will be money well spent.

This study showed frequent informal social networks and social participation that mediate through neighborhood bonding, can relieve minor physical symptoms.