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Major Role Losses and Social Participation of Older Males

Thomas T. H. Wan

Virginia Commonwealth University

Barbara Gill Odell

University of Maryland-Baltimore County

This article examines the relative importance of major role losses experienced in widowhood and retirement, personal characteristics, and prior level of participation as predictors of formal and informal social participation in old age. Data obtained from the Longitudinal Retirement History Survey (LRHS) of a panel (N = 6603) of males in their sixties are analyzed. Stepwise regression analysis reveals that prior level of participation and personal characteristics explain more variance in participation than major role losses considered alone or in conjunction with related deteriorative changes such as income loss. When the effects of these variables are simultaneously controlled, persons with major role losses have lower levels of participation in formal organizations and in selected areas of informal activity than those without comparable losses. Examination of the cumulative effects of experiencing both major role losses exacerbated these results. Policy implications for preretirement education and programming are discussed.

Research on Aging, Vol. 5, No. 2, 173-196 (1983)
DOI: 10.1177/0164027583005002003
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