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| Intergenerational exchanges and perceptions of support within "boomerang kid" family environments | | Author(s) | Jean E Veevers, Barbara A Mitchell |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 46, no 2, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 91-108 |
| Keywords | Living with family ; Parents ; Children [offspring] ; Informal care ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Drawing on the social exchange perspective, this study examined the extent to which adult children who have returned to the parental home ("boomerang kids") exchange several types of instrumental and affective support with their parents, and whether there is symmetry or incongruence in perceptions of support among these family dyads. The data used for this Canadian study were drawn from interviews with one child and one parent from 218 families in which the child had recently returned home. Findings indicate that children received more frequent instrumental and emotional (affective) support than parents received, and that parents perceived that they received considerably more emotional support than boomerang children acknowledged giving. Implications for family relationships over the life course and household living arrangements are considered. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980515401 A |
| Classmark | KA:SJ: SR: SS: P6: 7S |
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