SINGLE-TIE CORE NETWORKS AMONG OLDER EUROPEANS: A POSITION OF PRECARITY AND LONELINESS?
Haosen Sun, Jina Lee, Markus Schafer · 2023
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Haosen Sun and co-authors study older Europeans whose whole close network is a single person. Late-life loneliness is a public worry, and a one-person safety net looks fragile. Their 2023 paper uses two waves of the SHARE survey, from 2011 and 2015, to ask how common single-tie networks are and what they cost.
Nearly three in ten older Europeans leaned on exactly one important person. A spouse filled that slot most often, then a child. The study tests whether these elders are lonelier than peers with wider networks, and whether losing the one tie hits them hardest of all. Models lag the outcomes to watch change over time. Aging researchers get a sharper target than loneliness in general: the one-string network.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Haosen Sun, Jina Lee, Markus Schafer |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |