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PubMed1980

Age and acceptance of euthanasia.

Data on attitudes toward euthanasia from the 1977 NORC General Social Survey are analyzed. Women appear to be less accepting because of their greater religiosity. Less acceptance by nonwhites is associated with their lesser education and greater religiosity, and nonwhites appear additionally skeptical about institutionally-controlled decisions about life and death. Older people are apparently less accepting because lower education and increased religiosity. Among older people, acceptance of euthanasia is also greater among those who are more dissatisfied with their lives and more anomic. Death and euthanasia appear to be distinct attitude objects. Age differences in fear of death reflect aging effects, while age differences in the acceptability of euthanasia reflect cohort effects.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1988

Secular trends in abortion attitudes: 1975-1980-1985.

In this study, we compared the attitudes toward abortion of respondents from the National Opinion Research Center's (NORC) General Social Survey (GSS) for the years 1975, 1980, and 1985. The major theme of the GSS is that an adequate description of changes in abortion attitudes is predicted on resolving the question of whether the six abortion items used in the surveys measure one or two dimensions. We used the Mokken method of scale analysis, a stochastic extension of Guttman scaling, to resolve this question. We concluded that the six items are unidimensional and, therefore, create a single scale to measure the changes in abortion attitudes across the three periods. The data revealed virtually no change from 1975 to 1980, but a significant, though small, drop in approval from 1980 to 1985.

Abortion, Induced↗
PubMed1998

Perceptions of well-being among the older metropolitan and nonmetropolitan populations in the United States.

The relationships were examined between selected sociodemographic variables and perceptions of well-being among residents 60 years and older of metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas in the United States. Multiple regression models were used in analyzing data from the 1982-1991 NORC General Social Survey. Such sociodemographic variables as gender, race, marital status, education, financial status, place of residence, religious membership, and religious attendance were independent variables. A composite score of perceptions of well-being was the dependent variable. Race, marital status, education, financial status, religious attendance, and place of residence were important to well-being; gender and religious membership were not significant. The effects of nonmetropolitan living also significantly enhanced perceptions of well-being. Other facets of mental health in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas were also examined.

Aged↗
PubMed1976

Age profiles of membership in sixteen types of voluntary associations.

Several trends are noted which may lead future cohorts of older persons to belong to voluntary associations to a greater extent than current cohorts. Because the best previously available data which could be used to monitor changing membership levels are not two decades old, this study presents detailed age profiles of membership in 16 types of associations. Based on data from the 1974 and 1975 NORC General Social Surveys of the adult population of the USA (N = 2,974), various patterns of age differences in belonging to associations are identified and discussed for both the total sample and by sex. A rank order of the types of associations to which older persons are most likely to belong in 1974-1975 is compared with a similar rank order based on a 1955 survey. The paper concludes by specifying additional research questions which replicate studies should address.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

The never-married in later life.

Sources or consequences of singlehood are analyzed for the 162 never-married persons aged 50 and over from the six years of the NORC General Social Surveys. Highly-educated older women are most likely to remain single, but family background was not a predictor. Although the never-married find life more exciting than other marital statuses among younger (25 to 49) respondents, this reverses in later life. The never-married are also less happy than the married, and only slightly happier than the widowed and divorced. The characteristic that best explains their relative unhappiness is greater dissatisfaction with family life. The lower well-being of the never-married is attributable either to changes accompanying aging which lessen the viability of single life styles, or to less support of single living among current older cohorts.

Adult↗
PubMed1981

The effects of intra-individual and inter-spouse status inconsistency on life satisfaction among older persons.

Inter-spouse status inconsistencies have been largely ignored in gerontological literature related to life satisfaction. To test a series of hypotheses linking intra- and inter-spouse status inconsistency with life satisfaction, a sample of 570 married persons over 60 years of age, drawn from the 1975 to 1978 NORC General Social Surveys data, is evaluated by regressing the measures of life satisfaction on the independent variables in hierarchical fashion. The major findings include: (a) similar to past studies, higher status in general is associated with greater life satisfaction, but not all status factors correlated with life satisfaction; (b) differences between life satisfaction scores of those with high status inconsistencies and those with low inconsistencies are noted; however these differences are not statistically significant; (c) different status factors correlate with life satisfaction depending on the older person's involvement in organizations; and, (d) the negative effects of status inconsistency are not stronger among those older persons experiencing recent traumatic events.

Aged↗
PubMed1997

Age differences in patterns and correlates of the frequency of prayer.

This study examines differences by age cohort in (a) the frequency of prayer, (b) racial and gender variation in prayer, and (c) religious and sociodemographic correlates of prayer. Analyses are conducted across four age cohorts (18-30, 31-40, 41-60, > or = 61) using data from the 1988 National Opinion Research Center (NORC) General Social Survey (N = 1,481). Findings reveal that prayer is frequently practiced at all ages, but more frequently in successively older cohorts. In addition, females and, to a lesser extent, African Americans pray more frequently than males and Whites, respectively. Further, hierarchical multiple regression analyses reveal statistically significant associations across age cohorts between prayer and key measures of religious behavior, feeling, belief, and experience.

Adult↗
PubMed1989

Historical trends in status attainment.

Inquiry into the question of historical trends in status attainment will, in this article, involve the comparison of different age groups and different age groups across time. Mindful of limitations in interpreting differences between age groups as historical trends, this study provides such an analysis. Data for this study are from the NORC General Social Survey (July 1988, University of Chicago) and cover the time period from 1973 to 1988. The data offers an opportunity to both examine certain features of historical change as well as to ascertain its stability.

Achievement↗
PubMed1997

Perception of well-being among older persons in nonmetropolitan America.

This study examined the relationships of some selected sociodemographic variables to perception of well-being by elderly individuals living in nonmetropolitan areas in the United States. Data used were from the National Opinion Research Center's (NORC) General Social Surveys for the ten years between 1982-1991. Seven sociodemographic variables and six attitudinal variables were considered independent variables, and perception of well-being was treated as the dependent variable. Analysis of variance and multiple regression analysis indicated marital status, education, financial status, and religious attendance were significantly related to perception of well-being and five attitudinal variables increased the total variance accounted for in perceived well-being.

Aged↗
PubMed1999

Trends in the intergenerational transmission of divorce.

I use data from the 1973-1996 NORC General Social Survey to examine trends in the intergenerational transmission of divorce, the propensity for the children of divorce to end their own marriages. The rate of divorce transmission declined by almost 50% in the study period. This result was essentially unchanged by statistical controls for various personal and family background differences between respondents.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1998

Changing marital and family patterns: a test of the post-modern perspective.

"Four central constructs of the post-modern perspective are extended and tested using secondary analysis of [U.S.] Census data and the NORC General Social Survey: 1972-94 data sets. The modified postmodern themes of: (1) the decline of a single universal family organizational standard, and (2) growing cultural diversity...were supported by examining changes in American family structure, attitudes toward such structural changes, and changing attitudes toward marital and family patterns over the last quarter century. However, little support was found for the greater use of, and reliance on, (3) the mass media. Mixed results were found on the fourth construct, greater variance in, and/or loss of, personal happiness or personal or family life satisfaction."

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PubMed1989

Divine relations, social relations, and well-being.

The social support literature focuses on the effects of networks composed of "real" or concrete individuals on psychological well-being. Persons interact in imagination, however, with a wide range of others who may or may not actually exist. In modern societies as in traditional societies, persons experience, interact with, and appeal to spiritual or divine beings. Using data from the NORC General Social Survey, this study examines the extent to which relationships with "divine others" affect psychological well-being. Regression analysis reveals that divine relationships have a significant effect on several measures of well-being (controlling for sociodemographic background variables and church attendance). Hypotheses regarding the impact of stress, social relationships, cognitive resources, and images of the divine on the effect of divine relationships are also considered.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1980

Acceptance of conditional suicide and euthanasia among adult Americans.

Analysis of the attitudes of a 1977 cross-sectional sample of 1,530 American adults concerning euthanasia and suicide indicates that sex, age, and education are significant variables. Males, those who are younger and those who are better educated, are more likely to approve of euthanasia and suicide when a person has an incurable disease. Religious affiliation was not an important variable, although those who were frequent church-service attenders or who were high on religiosity were highly likely to reject euthanasia and suicide.

Adult↗