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Attachment bonds between adult daughters and their older mothers
— associations with contemporary caregiving | | Author(s) | Brian D Carpenter |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 56B, no 5, September 2001 |
| Pages | pp P257-P267 |
| Keywords | Daughters ; Mother ; Family relationships ; Daughters as carers ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The author explored whether attachment dimensions contribute to the explanation of instrumental and emotional caregiving above and beyond the influence of demographic and contextual factors that may be associated to parental care. 80 adult daughters (40 African American, 40 European American) completed assessments concerning these factors, and on caregiver burden. Three hypotheses were tested. First, securely and insecurely attached daughters provide comparable amounts of instrumental care to their ageing mothers. Second, securely attached daughters provide more emotional care to their mothers than insecurely attached daughters. Lastly, securely attached daughters experience lower caregiver burden than insecurely attached daughters. Attachment patterns are found to be unrelated to the amount of instrumental care offered by daughters, whereas they are significantly associated with the amount of emotional care provided by daughters. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-011025201 A |
| Classmark | SSH: SRM: DS:SJ: P6:SSH: 7T |
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