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Socialization or social structure
— investigating predictors of attitudes toward filial responsibility among Chinese urban youth from one- and multiple-child families | | Author(s) | Heying Jenny Zhan |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 59, no 2, 2004 |
| Pages | pp 105-124 |
| Source | http://baywood.com |
| Keywords | Children [offspring] as carers ; Family relationships ; Social structure ; Social interaction ; Urban areas ; China. |
| Annotation | It is argued that social structure, rather than socialisation, plays an increasingly important role in shaping one-child generation students' attitudes towards filial responsibility in China, and will continue to do so in the future. This conclusion was reached using survey data collected from 777 Chinese young adults in 1997 and 1998. The research found that: family economic conditions had a significant impact on young adults' attitudes; higher family income was positively related to respondents' willingness toward accepting filial responsibility; higher education levels, though positively related to respondents' attitudes toward xiao (filial respect), were negatively related to their commitment to family care when they foresaw job and care conflicts. Family socialisation was not found to enhance young adults' attitudes towards filial responsibility. Sharing the same household with grandparents and having dependent grandparents in the family were negatively associated with respondents' sense of obligation for parental care. Further, only children born after the one-child policy implementation scored lower than other children in their willingness to provide parental care when they foresaw job and care conflicts. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041221202 A |
| Classmark | P6:SS: DS:SJ: TM: TMA: RK: 7DC |
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