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Social Role Identities among Older Adults in a Continuing Care Retirement Community

Phyllis Moen

Cornell University, pem3{at}cornell.edu

Mary Ann Erickson

Cornell University

Donna Dempster-McClain

Cornell University

Basing their hypotheses on identity and life-course theories, the authors examine the social role identities of a group of older adults (N = 92) both before and after their move into a new continuing care retirement community (CCRC) to investigate whether this transition is linked to changes in social role identities. The congruence between actually enacting a role and choosing it as a role identity varies with the role. Current role behaviors and satisfaction predict role identity for two institutionalized, public roles (volunteer and church/synagogue member) but are less related to two more private roles (parent and friend). Cluster analysis reveals a typology of three discrete groups, based on social role identities: an involved group with a high number of role identities, a group focused on family roles identities, and a group focused on the friend role identity. The social role identities of the three groups changed in different ways after moving to the CCRC.

Research on Aging, Vol. 22, No. 5, 559-579 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/0164027500225005
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