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Fostering Social Ties Through A Volunteer Role: Implications For Older-Adults' Psychological Health
Abstract
This study examined the effects on older adults' psychological health of participation in a volunteer role that afforded opportunities to form friendships with age peers and to express nurturance toward another person. Access to these important social provisions was expected, in turn, to contribute to greater self-esteem, less loneliness, and less depression. The study hypotheses were tested by comparing older adults who served as foster grandparents to a developmentally disabled child ( N = 52) with older adults in two comparison groups ( Ns = 69, 59). Three assessments were conducted over a two-year period. The analyses revealed that the foster grandparents exhibited a significant increase in the number of new ties formed, but participation in the Foster Grandparent Program was not associated with the expected gains in emotional health. Explanations for the limited findings and implications for future research are discussed.
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“As three RCT papers reported different outcomes collected at the same follow-up from the Experience Corps trial [30,35,58]; a total of five independent RCTs [33,37,54,62] were identified.”
From Is volunteering a public health intervention? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the health and survival of volunteers (2013) · cites this paper as [54]
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“Additionally, no intervention effect was evident at either follow-up in respect of the number of people that depended on the participants.”
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“Despite the observed beneficial effects on structural social support, there were no significant between-group differences regarding loneliness, depression or self-esteem at either time point.”
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“The intervention group reported more new social ties at the two-year follow-up in comparison with both control groups.”
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“At the one-year and two-year follow-ups, intervention group participants reported forming more new relationships in the past year compared with two control groups (an alternative type of group programme and a no intervention group).”
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“The authors noted that their findings had limited generalisability due to a large attrition rate (81/180, 45%).”
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“The only study evaluating a one-to-one intervention that provided social activity [81] was deemed to be at high risk of bias.”
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“This compares with five out of 11 (45%) one-to-one interventions [59,71,78,79,81].”
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“six out of the seven (86%) activity interventions had at least one beneficial effect across the three domains of social, mental and physical health [13,60,67,70,74,81].”
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“compared with nine out of 11 (82%) interventions delivered by health and social care professionals [13,52,56,60,65,69,70,76,81].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rook, K. S., & Sorkin, D. H.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- Corresponding author
- Rook, Karen S.
- Venue
- The International Journal of Aging and Human Development
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2003-12
- Volume
- 57
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 313-337
- ISSN
- 0091-4150 (ISSN-L)
- 1541-3535
- OpenAlex
- W2129633350
- Cited by
- 105
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 1.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The International Journal of Aging and Human Development (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5p01ag003975-05)
- National Institute on Aging (AG03975)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Keywords
- older adults, volunteering, social ties, peer friendships, self-esteem, loneliness, depression, mental health, nurturing, developmental disabilities
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Analysis of Variance, Child, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Peer Group, Social Support, Volunteers, Chi-Square Distribution, Children with Disabilities
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