The effect of roles prescribed by active ageing on quality of life across European regions
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14230/23:00129914
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X21000726" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X21000726</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X21000726" target="_blank" >10.1017/S0144686X21000726</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The effect of roles prescribed by active ageing on quality of life across European regions
Original language description
The active ageing approach supports a set of roles or activities that are supposed to be beneficial for older adults. This paper reassesses the benefits of activities for the quality of life by (a) analysing many activities at the same time to control each other, (b) using panel data to detect the effects of activities over time, and (c) performing separate analyses for four European regions to test the context-specificity of the effects. The effects of roles in later life are tested on panel data from three waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) project. The results of fixed-effects regression show that only some activities - volunteering, participating in a club and physical activity - increase the quality of life, and that care-giving within the household has the opposite effect. Moreover, the beneficial effects are much weaker and less stable than the other types of regression suggest; they are beneficial only in some regions, and their effect is much weaker than the effects of age, health and economic situation. Therefore, the active ageing approach and activity theory should reflect the diverse conditions and needs of older adults to formulate more-context-sensitive and less-normative policy recommendations.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ageing & Society
ISSN
0144-686X
e-ISSN
1469-1779
Volume of the periodical
43
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
25
Pages from-to
664-688
UT code for WoS article
000742524800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85109984187