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Filial responsibility
— does it matter for care-giving behaviours? | | Author(s) | Neena L Chappell, Laura Funk |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 32, part 7, October 2012 |
| Pages | pp 1128-1146 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Family care ; Children [offspring] as carers ; Attitude ; Ethnic groups ; Chinese people ; White people ; Cross cultural surveys. |
| Annotation | This study looked at the relationship between attitudes of filial responsibility and five different types of care-giving behaviours to parents among three cultural groups. It assessed the relative importance of cultural versus structural factors for care-giving behaviours. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 100 White Canadians, 90 Chinese Canadians and 125 Hong Kong Chinese. Multiple regression analyses assessed the association of cultural and structural factors with behaviours among the total sample and each of the three cultural groups. Limited support was found for an association between care-giving attitudes and care-giving behaviours. Attitudes were related to emotional support only among the two Chinese groups as well as to financial support among Chinese Canadian respondents and to companionship among Hong Kong Chinese respondents. Attitudes were not the strongest predictors and were unrelated to assistance with basic and instrumental activities of daily living. However, cultural group per se was a strong predictor of care-giving behaviours as were: parental ill health, living arrangements, and relationship quality. This study suggests gerontological assumptions about the role of societal norms and personal attitudes in parental care-giving should be questioned. It also suggests the need for further inquiry into unpacking those aspects of 'cultural group' that are related to behavioural differences, and the importance of examining multiple types of care-giving behaviours and of distinguishing task-oriented helping behaviour from other types of assistance. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-121002003 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: P6:SS: DP: TK: TKL: TKA: 3KA |
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