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SUBMITTER: Huxhold O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6703232 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Huxhold Oliver O Fiori Katherine L KL
The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 20190801 6
<h4>Objectives</h4>Contextual influences of the living environment on the social integration of adults have been primarily studied cross-sectionally. Here, we argue that context (i.e., urban vs rural environment) as well as changes in context (i.e., population decline) are potentially important for the development of social integration across middle adulthood and late life.<h4>Method</h4>We used a large-scale longitudinal data set representative of the late middle-aged and older German populatio ...[more]