Table 4 Verification of hypotheses
From: Social and private activity after retirement—substitutes or complements
Hypothesis 1 | increase in private sociable activity ⇒ increase in private solitary activity increase in formal social activity ⇔ increase in private solitary activity | confirmed |
association between increases in other pairs of activity types | not confirmed | |
Hypothesis 2.1 | increase in family network ⇒ increase in informal social activity ⇒ increase in other activity | not fully confirmed (increase in informal help does not foster increase in any other type of activity) |
Hypothesis 2.2 | increase in family network ⇒ increase in private sociable activity ⇒ increase in other activity (private solitary activity) | confirmed |
Hypothesis 2.3 | increase in friends and acquaintances network ⇒ increase in formal social activity ⇒ increase in other activity (private solitary activity) | confirmed |
Hypothesis 2.4 | increase in friends and acquaintances network ⇒ increase in private sociable activity ⇒ increase in other activity (private solitary activity) | not fully confirmed (increase in friends and acquaintances network does not foster increase in private sociable activity) |
Hypothesis 2.5 | increase in informal social activity ⇒ increase in family network ⇒ increase in private sociable activity | confirmed |
Hypothesis 2.6 | increase in formal social activity ⇒ increase in friends and acquaintances ⇒ increase in private sociable activity | not fully confirmed (increase in friends and acquaintances network does not foster increase in private sociable activity) |
Hypothesis 2.7 | increase in private sociable activity ⇒ increase in family network ⇒ increase in informal social activity | confirmed |
Hypothesis 2.8 | increase in private sociable activity ⇒ increase in friends and acquaintances network ⇒ increase in formal social activity | not fully confirmed (increase in private sociable activity does not foster increase in friends and acquaintances network) |
Additional mechanism fostering complementarity, not predicted in the hypotheses | increase in formal social activity ⇒ increase in friends and acquaintances ⇒ increase in informal social activity | confirmed |