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Balancing parent care with older roles
— interrole conflict of adult daughter caregivers | | Author(s) | Mary Ann Parris Stephens, Aloen L Townsend, Lynn M Martire |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 56B, no 1, January 2001 |
| Pages | pp P24-P34 |
| Keywords | Daughters as carers ; Wives ; Mother ; Social roles ; Employment ; Stress ; Well being ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The conflicting roles for 278 American women of parent care provider, mother to children at home, wife and employees are examined as part of a longitudinal study of middle-generation women caregivers by Stephens and Townsend. Compared with women who experienced no conflict between parent care and their other roles, women reporting parent care conflict tend to have fewer socio-economic resources, have older children, and to be caring for parents with greater impairment. Women who reported conflicts between parent care and employment were older, had more education, had been married longer, and had older, more self-sufficient children than women who reported conflict between the parent care role and the mother role. Some evidence was found for the hypothesis that inter-role conflict between parent care and other roles mediate the relationship between parent care stress and psychosocial well-being. Results suggest that one way that parent care stress exerts deleterious effects on the well-being of adult daughters is through the incompatible pressure of parent care and other roles. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010307218 A |
| Classmark | P6:SSH: SNW: SRM: TM5: WJ: QNH: D:F:5HH: 7T |
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