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Informal Social Support Networks and Subjective Well-Being among African Americans

University of Michigan

Linda M. Chatters

University of Michigan

Cheryl Burns Hardison

University of Michigan

Anna Riley

University of Missouri-Columbia

This article examines the influence of sociodemographic and family, friendship, fictive kin, church, and neighbor network variables on two measures of subjective well-being (i.e., life satisfaction and happiness) among a national sample of African Americans. The analyses were conducted on the National Survey of Black Americans, a national cross-section study of the adult (age 18 and older) Black population (N = 2,107). Multivariate analyses revealed that sociodemographic (i.e., age, income, region, health, marital status, urbanicity) and social relations and network factors (i.e., subjective family closeness, support from family, number of friends, presence of fictive kin, church attendance, and frequency of contact with neighbors) were significantly associated with subjective well-being. The findings are discussed in relation to previous work on the sociodemographic, health, and social network correlates of subjective well-being.

Journal of Black Psychology, Vol. 27, No. 4, 439-463 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/0095798401027004004


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