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Solidarity-conflict and ambivalence
— testing two conceptual frameworks and their impact on quality of life for older family members | | Author(s) | Ariela Lowenstein |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 62B, no 2, March 2007 |
| Pages | pp S100-S107 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Family relationships ; Parents ; Children [offspring] ; Quality of life ; Comparison ; Norway ; England ; Germany ; Spain ; Israel. |
| Annotation | Two major conceptualisations of parent-child relations in later life - intergenerational solidarity or conflict, and ambivalence paradigms - are empirically tested, along with their predictive validity on older people's quality of life. Comparative cross-national data from a sample of 2664 people aged 75+ from the five-country OASIS study (Old Age and Autonomy: the Role of Service Systems and Intergenerational Solidarity: Norway, England, Germany, Spain and Israel). Multivariate and block-recursive regression models estimated the predictivity of the two conceptualisations of family dynamics on quality of life controlling for country, personal characteristics, and activity of daily living (ADL) functioning. Descriptive analyses indicated that family solidarity (especially the affective/cognitive component) was high in all five countries, whereas conflict and/or ambivalence was low. Controlling for AD functioning, socioeconomic status and country, intergenerational relationships had only weak explanatory power and personal resources explained most of the variance. The data suggest that the three constructs exist simultaneously but in varying combinations, confirming that in cross-cultural contexts family cohesion predominates, albeit with low degrees of conflict and ambivalence. The solidarity construct evidenced relatively robust measurement. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070504250 A |
| Classmark | DS:SJ: SR: SS: F:59: 48: 76N: 82: 767: 76S: 7H6 |
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