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| An exploration of actions of filial piety | | Author(s) | Kyu-Taik Sung |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging Studies, vol 12, no 4, Winter 1998 |
| Pages | pp 369-386 |
| Keywords | Family care ; Parents ; Children [offspring] ; Social change ; Korea. |
| Annotation | Filial piety has greatly influenced parent care and the parent-child relationship in Korea as in China and Japan. In recent years, as Korea is undergoing rapid social change, concern over parent care has been increasing. This growing concern necessitates a critical review of the willingness of adult children to practice filial piety. This study, aimed at identifying specific indices of filial piety, developed a descriptive taxonomy of categories of concrete actions of filial piety by deconstructing the meanings of filial piety in practice. For this purpose, stories about adult children who exemplified filial piety were analysed by the content analysis method and the results were triangulated with findings from a questionnaire survey of the same adult children. A set of 10 categories emerged, including respect, responsibility, affection, and repayment. These categories enable a comprehensive assessment of caring for older parents by their adult children and a holistic understanding of an "ideal form" of filial piety, to which Koreans are aspiring. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990108403 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: SR: SS: TMH: 7DK |
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