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| Affective bonds of adult children with living versus deceased parents | | Author(s) | Dov Shmotkin |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 14, no 3, September 1999 |
| Pages | pp 473-482 |
| Keywords | Family relationships ; Death ; Bereavement ; Parents ; Children [offspring] ; Israel. |
| Annotation | Affective bonds of children with their parents have been widely studied in intergenerational research. However, studies have largely overlooked the significant roles that the enduring relations with deceased parents continue to play in the lives of the surviving children. In this study, Israeli adult children aged 17 to 77 years formed three groups with both parents alive, only mother alive, and both parents deceased. Questionnaires assessed relations with mother and father (363 participants completed bond intensity and 217 of them completed bond intensity and bond evaluation). Whereas bond intensity (with factors of closeness, influence and commitment) refers to the strength of relationship's manifestations, bond evaluation refers to the subjective location of this relationship on a positive-negative continuum. Contrary to the hypothesis, bond intensity was not lower for deceased than for living parents. As hypothesised, bond evaluation was higher for mother and father when both were deceased. The study suggests a developmental trajectory whereby the affective bonds of adult children toward their parents transcend parental death and normative mourning. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000114236 A |
| Classmark | DS:SJ: CW: DW: SR: SS: 7H6 |
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