MEASURING SOCIAL ISOLATION AMONG US-BORN AND FOREIGN-BORN OLDER ADULTS
Rita Hu, Noah Webster, Kristine Ajrouch, Toni Antonucci · 2023
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Rita Hu, Noah Webster, Kristine Ajrouch, and Toni Antonucci check whether measures of social isolation work the same way for US-born and foreign-born older adults, in a 2023 paper. Older immigrants face higher isolation risk, yet standard scales may not mean the same thing across groups.
Data came from a Detroit-area phone survey of more than six hundred older adults, about a third of them immigrants. The team split isolation into objective parts, such as network size, and felt parts, such as loneliness. Statistical tests showed the scales mostly held across groups, with a few items behaving differently. That finding supports fair comparison between the groups.
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| CREATOR | Rita Hu, Noah Webster, Kristine Ajrouch, Toni Antonucci |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |