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Activities and Self-Esteem

Continuing the Development of Activity Theory

Donald C. Reitzes

Georgia State University

Elizabeth J. Mutran

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Linda A. Verrill

Georgia State University

Data derived from in-depth telephone interviews with full-time working men and women aged 58 to 64 years old who reside in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill metropolitan area are used to explore the influence of activities on self-esteem. Findings include that: (a) among the traditional measures, only leisure activities exert a positive effect on self-esteem; (b) among the new measures, activities with relatives and activities with work friends have a positive effect on self-esteem for women but not for men; (c) activities performed alone exert a positive effect on the self-esteem for men, but not for women; and (d) for women, but not for men, three of the four sets of activities have a more positive effect on self-esteem when role commitment is high.

Research on Aging, Vol. 17, No. 3, 260-277 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/0164027595173002
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