The Effects of Poverty Environments on Elders' Subjective Well-being: A Conceptual Model
- 1 August 1995
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 35 (4) , 541-548
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/35.4.541
Abstract
This article presents a conceptual model, the Urban Ecological Model of Aging, to be used by researchers to assess the impact of living in neighborhoods of concentrated and prolonged poverty on elderly residential satisfaction and subjective well-being. Specifically, the suprapersonal environment characteristics, or aggregated people characteristics, of impoverished urban neighborhoods are explicated and included in a predictive model of community-dwelling elders' affective state, i.e., positive and negative affect. Demographic and personal characteristics are also included in the model as predictors.Keywords
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