id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ncnyimopvbbqrcasdxm2sr7gb4 Jenny de Jong Gierveld Long-Standing Nonkin Relationships of Older Adults in the Netherlands and the United States 2006.0 19 .pdf application/pdf 9191 1898 60 the Netherlands and the United States known members of their nonkin networks? Nationally based differences were also observed (e.g., having a car was related to stable relationships only in the United States, and the special integrative functions of exclusive friendships were elicited only in Europe). Keywords: social integration; cross-cultural; duration; nonkin relationships toward social integration and the duration of long-standing nonkin relationships must be taken into consideration. The first question we asked was, To what extent are (older) adults integrated in important nonkin relationships, and what are the descriptive characteristics, including duration, of these relationships? living in the United States would need to travel longer distances to maintain contacts with network members, compared with Europeans. Netherlands, will report (a) higher proportions of friends in their core networks, (b) shorter mean durations for their nonkin relationships, and (c) a and nonkin top nomination network members (friends, neighbors, colleague volunteers), was about 12 years, in both the Netherlands and the ./cache/work_ncnyimopvbbqrcasdxm2sr7gb4.pdf ./txt/work_ncnyimopvbbqrcasdxm2sr7gb4.txt