Strains of singlehood in later life: Do race and gender matter?

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Pudrovska, Tetyana ^a   Schieman, Scott ^b   Carr, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; DIVORCE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PEER GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE MAN; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIALIZATION; WIDOW; WIDOWER;

EID: 33751571663     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/61.6.S315     Document Type: Article

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