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| Perceived social support in a large community sample--age and sex differences. |
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| ABSTRACT |
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| BACKGROUND |
NlmCategory: BACKGROUND |
| The positive health and wellbeing effects of social support have been consistently demonstrated in the literature since the late 1970s. However, a better understanding of the effects of age and sex is required. |
| METHOD |
NlmCategory: METHODS |
| We examined the factor structure and reliability of Kessler's Perceived Social Support (KPSS) measure in a community-based sample that comprised younger and older adult cohorts from the Australian Twin Registry (ATR), totalling 11,389 males and females aged 18-95, of whom 887 were retested 25 months later. |
| RESULTS |
NlmCategory: RESULTS |
| Factor analysis consistently identified seven factors: support from spouse, twin, children, parents, relatives, friends and helping support. Internal reliability for the seven dimensions ranged from 0.87 to 0.71 and test-retest reliability ranged from 0.75 to 0.48. Perceived support was only marginally higher in females. Age dependencies were explored. Across the age range, there was a slight decline (more marked in females) in the perceived support from spouse, parent and friend, a slight increase in perceived relative and helping support for males but none for females, a substantial increase in the perceived support from children for males and females and a negligible decline in total KPSS for females against a negligible increase for males. The perceived support from twin remained constant. Females were more likely to have a confidant, although this declined with age whilst increasing with age for males. |
| CONCLUSIONS |
NlmCategory: CONCLUSIONS |
| Total scores for perceived social support conflate heterogeneous patterns on sub-scales that differ markedly by age and sex. Our paper describes these relationships in detail in a very large Australian sample. |
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| HISTORY |
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| PUBSTATUS |
PUBSTATUSDATE |
| pubmed |
2004/08/10 05:00 |
| medline |
2004/10/27 09:00 |
| accepted |
2004/00/23 |
| entrez |
2004/08/10 05:00 |
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| AUTHORS |
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| NAME |
COLLECTIVENAME |
LASTNAME |
FORENAME |
INITIALS |
AFFILIATION |
AFFILIATIONINFO |
| Coventry WL |
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Coventry |
W L |
WL |
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Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia. wcoventr@pobox.une.edu.au |
| Gillespie NA |
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Gillespie |
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NA |
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| Heath AC |
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Heath |
A C |
AC |
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| Martin NG |
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Martin |
N G |
NG |
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| JOURNAL |
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| VOLUME: 39 |
| ISSUE: 8 |
| TITLE: Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology |
| ISOABBREVIATION: Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol |
| YEAR: 2004 |
| MONTH: Aug |
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| CITEDMEDIUM: Print |
| ISSN: 0933-7954 |
| ISSNTYPE: Print |
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| MEDLINE JOURNAL |
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| MEDLINETA: Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol |
| COUNTRY: Germany |
| ISSNLINKING: 0933-7954 |
| NLMUNIQUEID: 8804358 |
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| PUBLICATION TYPE |
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| PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT |
| Journal Article |
| Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
| Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. |
| Twin Study |
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| COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS |
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| GRANTS |
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| GRANTID |
AGENCY |
COUNTRY |
| AA 07535 |
NIAAA NIH HHS |
United States |
| AA 07728 |
NIAAA NIH HHS |
United States |
| AA 10249 |
NIAAA NIH HHS |
United States |
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| GENERAL NOTE |
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| KEYWORDS |
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| MESH HEADINGS |
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| DESCRIPTORNAME |
QUALIFIERNAME |
| Adolescent |
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| Adult |
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| Age Factors |
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| Aged |
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| Aged, 80 and over |
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| Australia |
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| Family |
psychology |
| Female |
psychology |
| Friends |
psychology |
| Humans |
psychology |
| Interpersonal Relations |
psychology |
| Male |
psychology |
| Middle Aged |
psychology |
| Personality Inventory |
statistics & numerical data |
| Psychometrics |
statistics & numerical data |
| Reproducibility of Results |
statistics & numerical data |
| Sex Factors |
statistics & numerical data |
| Social Support |
statistics & numerical data |
| Twins |
psychology |
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