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The Gerontologist, Vol 34, Issue 3 347-352, Copyright © 1994 by The Gerontological Society of America

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Widows in retirement communities: the social context of subjective well- being

LK Hong and RW Duff
Department of Sociology, California State University, Los Angeles 90032.

This study focuses on why some widows were satisfied in retirement communities and some were not. Satisfied widows were more socially active and were the majority in the community. Widows and married differed in social interactions contingent on which group was in the majority. The ratio of marrieds to widows in a community may lead to different social interaction in the two groups which, in turn, may influence widows' satisfaction.


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