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Obligations to stepparents acquired in later life
— relationship quality and acuity of needs | | Author(s) | Lawrence Ganong, Marilyn Coleman |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 61B, no 2, March 2006 |
| Pages | pp S80-S88 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Step relationships ; Family relationships ; Needs [elderly] ; Attitude ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Stepparents acquired in later life generally are not seen as family members, such that the norms of family obligation do not apply to them. This study used a sample of 487 men and 571 women obtained by randomly dialled telephone numbers across the US, to examine beliefs about responsibilities of an adult child to an older step-parent or parent who has remarried in later life. Respondents were presented with a multiple-segment vignette in which type of relationship between adults (i.e. parent-child or stepparent-stepchild), the relationship quality, and the acuity of the older person's needs were randomly varied. Respondents indicated how much help the younger adult should give the older person, and how obliged the younger adult was to help the younger person. Respondents were also asked open-ended questions about the rationale of judgements about intergenerational helping. Perceived responsibilities to parents were greater than responsibilities to step-parents. Relationship quality and acuity of need were also related to obligation beliefs. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070504203 A |
| Classmark | SWM: DS:SJ: IK: DP: 7T |
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