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Parent-child relationships among older Chinese immigrants
— the influence of co-residence, frequent contact, intergenerational support and sense of children's deference | | Author(s) | Man Guo, Ling Xu, Jinyu Liu |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 36, no 7, August 2016 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, August 2016 |
| Pages | pp 1459-1482 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Chinese people ; Family relationships ; Parents ; Children [offspring] ; Living with family ; Family care ; Geographical distance ; Quantitative studies. |
| Annotation | Immigration disrupts the bonding process in families. Maintaining close relationships with adult children can be an important protective factor for older immigrants' health and well-being. This quantitative study examined factors associated with close parent-child relationships in a purposive sample of 236 older Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles who provided information regarding 365 children. Two-level regression models were estimated to investigate factors contributing to cohesive parent-child relationships among these older adults. The findings showed that co-residence, a characteristic that distinguishes immigrant families from most non-immigrant families, was associated with lower parent-child relationship quality. Frequent contact was associated with closer relationships. While receiving instrumental and monetary support from children was associated with favourable ratings of relationships with children, providing such support to children was not related to parents' assessment of relationship quality. Parental perceptions of children being respectful was also associated with better relationship quality ratings. Overall, the findings demonstrate how family-related changes in the immigration context shape parent-child relationships in later life. Implications for future research and practice are provided. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160729205 A |
| Classmark | TKL: DS:SJ: SR: SS: KA:SJ: P6:SJ: RJ: 3DQ |
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