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The long arm of offspring
— adult children's troubles as teenagers and elderly parents' mental health | | Author(s) | Melissa A Milkie, Dawn R Norris, Alex Bierman |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 33, no 3, May 2011 |
| Pages | pp 327-355 |
| Source | http://roa.sagepub.com/ |
| Keywords | Parents ; Mental health [elderly] ; Stress ; Well being ; Children [offspring] ; Adolescents ; Behaviour disorders ; Life span ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | The study aimed to investigate whether children's problematic experiences in adolescence have an impact on the mental health of their parents in later life, decades after these experiences have occurred. With a sample of 670 African American and white mothers and fathers aged 65 and older, the authors show that older parents have higher levels of anger when their offspring had more difficulties as teens. For black parents this association remains with controls for children's problems as adults and current concerns about adult children, whereas for white parents it is mediated by current concerns. Teen difficulties are also related to current depression for older black but not white parents. This research adds to the literature on family, mental health and ageing by showing how psychological well-being in later life is in part a function of parenting experiences decades earlier. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-111228002 A |
| Classmark | SR: D: QNH: D:F:5HH: SS: SC: EP: BG6: 3J |
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