Study Duckitt (1982): study ZA 1980
- Public
- 65-90 aged whites Pretoria, South Africa, 198?
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 80
- Non Response
- 20%
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
at home
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Frequency of interaction
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Controlled for household income and expert rated physical health. Controls reduced zero-order correlations only slightly.
- Operationalization
- Frequency of contacts (yearly,
monthly, weekly or daily) with:
1. immediate family (i.e. spouse,
children, grand children),
2. siblings and other relatives,
3. intimate friends (described as
extremely close friends whom the
subject confided in and could depend
on for emotional support,
4. other friends, neighbours and
acquaintences,
5. total network,
6. total network, intimate friends
excluded.