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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"older parents"”.
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Culture and Family Life: Three Studies on Family and Marriage Relationships across Cultures
… and Development (OECD) differ culturally in older adults' preference for family elder care. I find that older adults from countries with more traditional values that emphasize the importance of a strong parent-child tie are more likely to prefer family care rather than formal care than those …
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Strategies for retirement community development in China
In 2000, China's 60-year-and-older population reached 130 million, or 10% of the total population. This event symbolizes that China has entered the aging society. In the Chinese tradition, strong family support enables older Chinese to live with their children and age at home. The One Child Policy …
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A quantitative examination of self-regulation, parental experience, and age of biological parents.
… dysregulation presents substantial challenges to parents' well-being and healthy child development. Nonetheless, many parents find self-regulation a challenge to manage, which may result in adverse consequences (Lunkenheimer et al., 2023). The purpose of this quantitative cross-sectional survey …
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Parental role behavior, psychological centrality and self-esteem among the elderly
… parental role involvement and self-esteem of parents despite theoretical and intuitive support for the prediction. An explanatory model of the interaction between role occupancy, psychological centrality of the role, and self-esteem among older parents was presented. Data from the National …
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Filial responsibility expectations among adult child-older parent pairs
… Descriptive statistics suggested that most older parents and adult children interpreted the filial role to include a great deal of emotional support and discussion of important matters and available resources. Both generations perceived living close and writing letters to parents on a weekly …
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What is it like to experience the loss of an adult child in old age?
… experience of losing a child in old age, and how older people understand and cope with their experience. As part of this narrative inquiry, three stories were produced which stand on their own to represent different experiences of bereaved older parents. The participants were UK-based and 79-82 …
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Self Concept and Family Relations of American-Lebanese Children: a Descriptive and Comparative Study
… ages. The 4-6-year-olds, as compared to the older groups, included less activity level for mother, father, older, and younger siblings. They drew shorter arms and less complete faces for mother and father, a less nurturing mother, and were facing less into the drawing. The 4-6-year-olds drew …
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Three Essays on Social Stratification, Gender and Health
… relationship between mortality of parents and offspring's educational attainment, and the association between adult literacy and self-rated health in 17 developed countries. Methodologically, I use multinomial regression, quantile regression, Cox proportional hazards models, and …
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Behavioural antecedents of altruism: a comparative analysis
… as opposed to geriatric care and suggest that older parents may be more altruistically disposed toward offspring than younger parents. Based on a theory for the establishment and increase of altruistic genes in animal populations, a relationship was hypothesized to exist in the avian order …