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Social Health in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project

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  • Linda J Waite
  • Rebeccah Duvoisin
  • Ashwin A Kotwal
  • Merril Silverstein

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ObjectivesIn this article, we present the theoretical framework that guided the development of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) including the measures of social health. We discuss the literature that links social measures to other outcomes, and we discuss in detail how researchers might construct common measures of social health, including those that reflect social relationships, sexuality, social networks, social resources, and social participation.MethodsThe NSHAP includes multiple detailed measures of social health, collected in the rounds of data collection carried out in 2005, 2010, and 2015, allowing for study of changes over time and as people age among a nationally representative sample of the community-dwelling population of older adults in the United States.ResultsWe define indicators of social health, describe measures of each in the 2015 round of NSHAP, and show the distribution of the measures by gender and age. We present scales of dimensions of social health that have been developed elsewhere and describe their properties.DiscussionWe briefly discuss the distribution of these measures by age and gender in the 2015 round of NSHAP. Simple analyses of these categorized measures reveal differences by age and gender that deserve closer attention in future investigations using the NSHAP data.

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  • Linda J Waite & Rebeccah Duvoisin & Ashwin A Kotwal & Merril Silverstein, 2021. "Social Health in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 76(Supplemen), pages 251-265.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:geronb:v:76:y:2021:i:supplement_3:p:s251-s265.
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