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anthro_age-67	Lehman, Dawn Bodo	Toward a Contextually Valid Measure of Social Support Among Middle-Aged and Older African Americans in a Southern Urban Community	2010	13	.pdf	application/pdf	7194	304	44	Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2010: 31 (1-2) 14 Features Toward a Contextually Valid Measure of Social Support Among Middle-Aged and Older African Americans in a Southern Urban Community Dawn Bodo Lehman, Ph.D. Director of Education Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging 1603 Orrington Suite 1800 Evanston, IL 60201 dlehman@MatherLifeWays.com Abstract A gap in the literature on social support among middle-aged and older African Americans and limitations in scales measuring social support among this group indicate a need for a new measure of social support that is sensitive to the cultural context in which this population lives. The literature indicates that social support is a multidimensional, fluid phenomenon, i.e., it has many dimensions and each dimension may have significance for individuals and communities at different periods in time and in different geographical locations.	cache/anthro_age-67.pdf	txt/anthro_age-67.txt