The filial task in midlife: Ambivalence and the quality of adult children’s relationships with their older parents

Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 183-206

  Lang, Frieder R ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247659931     PISSN: 15303535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1530-3535(03)04008-1     Document Type: Review

References (43)

1. Angermeyer, M. C., Klusmann, D., &Walpuski, O. (1988). The causes of functional psychoses as seen by patients and their relatives: II. The relatives’ point of view. European Archives of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences, 238, 55–61.
2. Aquilino, W. S. (1999). Two views of one relationship: Comparing parents’ and young adult children’s reports of the quality of intergenerational relations. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 61, 858–870.
3. Austin, E. J., Deary, I. J., Gibson, G. J., McGregor, M J.,& Dent, J. B. (1998). Individual response spread in self-report scales: Personality correlations and consequences. Personality and Individual Differences, 24, 421–438.
4. Baltes, M. M., & Silverberg, S. B. (1994). The dynamics between dependency and autonomy: Illustrations across the life-span. In: D. L. Featherman, R. M. Lerner & M. Perlmutter (Eds), Life-Span Development and Behavior (Vol. 12, pp. 41–90). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
5. Baumeister, R. F., & Tice, D. M. (1988). Metatraits. Journal of Personality, 56, 571–598.
6. Bengtson, V. L., & Kuypers, J. A. (1971). Generational difference and the developmental stake. Aging and Human Development, 2, 249–260.
7. Bengtson, V. L., & Roberts, R. E. (1991). Intergenerational solidarity in aging families: An example of formal theory construction. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 53, 856–870.
8. Blenkner, M. (1965). Social work and family relationships in later life. In: E. Shanas & G. F. Streib (Eds), Social Structure and the Family: Generational Relations (pp. 46–59). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
9. Blieszner, R., & Hamon, R. R. (1992). Filial responsibility: Attitudes, motivators, and behaviors. In: J. W. Dwyer & R. R. Coward (Eds), Gender, Families, and Elder Care (pp. 105–119). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
10. Bortz, J. (1993). Statistik (4th ed.). Berlin: Springer.
11. Clausen, J. (1993). Kontinuität und Wandel in familialen Generationen-beziehungen [Continuity and change in intergenerational relationships within the family]. In: K. Lüscher & F. Schulzheis (Eds), Generationenbeziehungen in postmodernen Gesellschaften (pp. 111–124). Konstanz, Germany: Universitätsverlag Konstanz.
12. Diekmann, K. A., Samuels, S. M., Ross, L., & Bazerman, M. H. (1997). Self-interest and fairness in problems of resource allocation: Allocators vs. recipients. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 1061–1074.
13. Eggebeen, D. J. (1995). Patterns of support given by older Americans to their children. In: S. A. Bass (Ed.), Older and Active: How Americans over 55 are Contributing to Society (pp. 122–168). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
14. Fingerman, K. (1996). Sources of tension in the aging mother and adult daughter relationship. Psychology and Aging, 11, 591–606.
15. Frankel, B.G.,& DeWit D. J. (1989). Geographic distance and intergenerational contact: An empirical examination of the relationship. Journal of Aging Studies, 3, 139–162.
16. Gouldner, A. W. (1960). The norm of reciprocity: A preliminary statement. American Sociological Review, 25(2), 161–178.
17. Halpern, J. (1994). The sandwich generation: Conflicts between adult children and their aging parents. In: D. D. Cahn (Ed.), Conflict in Personal Relationships (pp. 143–160). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
18. Hamon, R. R., & Blieszner, R. (1990). Filial responsibility expectations among adult child-older parent pairs. Journals of Gerontology, 45, P110–P112.
19. Ikkink, K. K., Tilburg, T. V., & Knipscheer, K. C. P. M. (1999). Perceived instrumental support exchanges in relationships between elderly parents and their adult children: Normative and structural explanations. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 61, 831–844.
20. Kahn, R. L., & Antonucci, T. C. (1980). Convoys over the life course: Attachment roles and social support. In: P. B. Baltes & O. G. Brim (Eds), Life-Span Development and Behavior (pp. 254–283). New York: Academic Press.
21. Lang, F. R. (2001). Regulation of social relationships in later adulthood. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 58B, P321–P326.
22. Lang, F. R., & Carstensen, L. L. (1994). Close emotional relationships in late life: Further support for proactive aging in the social domain. Psychology and Aging, 9, 315–324.
23. Lang, F. R., & Schütze, Y. (2002). Adult children’s supportive behaviors and older parents’ subjective well-being – A developmental perspective on intergenerational relationships. Journal of Social Issues, 58, 661–680.
24. Lawrence, R. H., Bennett, J. M., & Markides, K. S. (1992). Perceived intergenerational solidarity and psychological distress among older Mexican Americans. Journals of Gerontology, 47, S55–S65.
25. Lüscher, K. (1998, July). A heuristic model for the study of intergenerational ambivalence. Arbeitspapier [Working Paper] 29. Universit¨at Konstanz, Germany: Forschungsschwerpunkt “Gesellschaft und Familie.”
26. Lüscher, K., & Pillemer, K. (1998). Intergenerational ambivalence: A new approach to the study of parent-child relations in later life. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 60, 413–425.
27. Miller, D. T. (1999). The norm of self-interest. American Psychologist, 54, 1053–1060.
28. Miller, J. G., Bersoff, D. M., & Harwood, R. L. (1990). Perceptions of social responsibilities in India and in the United States: Moral imperatives or personal decisions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 33–47.
29. Moen, P., & Wethington, E. (1999). Midlife development in a life course context. In: S. L. Willis & J. D. Reid (Eds), Life in the Middle (pp. 3–23). San Diego: Academic Press.
30. Montada, L., Dalbert, C.,& Schmitt, M. (1988). Ist prosoziales Handeln im Kontext Familie abhaengig von situationalen, personalen oder systemischen Faktoren? [Is prosocial behavior in the family context depending on situational, personal, or systemic factors?]. In: H. Bierhoff & L. Montada (Eds), Altruismus: Bedingungen der Hilfsbereitschaft (pp. 179–205). Goettingen, Germany: Hogrefe.
31. Montada, L., & Lerner, M. J. (Eds) (1996). Critical issues in social justice. New York: Plenum.
32. Nydegger, C. N. (1991). The development of paternal and filial maturity. In: K. Pillemer & K. Mc-Cartney (Eds), Parent-Child Relations Throughout Life (pp. 93–112). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
33. Nydegger, C. N., & Mitteness, L. S. (1991). Fathers and their adult sons and daughters. Marriage and Family Review, 16, 249–256.
34. Pillemer, K., & Suitor, J. J. (1992). Violence and violent feelings: What causes them among family caregivers? Journals of Gerontology, 47, S165–S172.
35. Pruchno, R. A., Peters, N. D., Kleban, M. H., & Burant, C. J. (1994). Attachment among adult children and their institutionalized parents. Journals of Gerontology, 49, S209–S218.
36. Roberts, R. E., & Bengtson, V. L. (1990). Is intergenerational solidarity a uni-dimensional construct? A second test of a formal model. Journals of Gerontology, 45, S12–S20.
37. Rosenthal, C. J., Martin, M. A., & Matthews, S. H. (1996). Caught in the middle? Occupancy in multiple roles and help to parents in a national probability sample of Canadian adults. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 51B, S274–S283.
38. Rossi, A., & Rossi, P. (1990). Of human bonding: Parent child-relation-ships across the life course. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine and Gruyter.
39. Schütze, Y., & Wagner, M. (1995). Familiale Solidarität in den späten Phasen des Familienverlaufs [Family solidarity in later phases of the family cycle]. In: B. Nauck & C. Onnen-Isemann (Eds), Familie im Brennpunkt von Wissenschaft und Forschung (pp. 307–327). Neuwied, Germany: Luchterhand.
40. Silverstein, M., & Bengtson, V. L. (1997). Intergenerational solidarity and the structure of adult child-parent relationships in American families. American Journal of Sociology, 103, 429–460.
41. Silverstein, M., Parrott, T. M., & Bengtson, V. L. (1995). Factors that predispose middle-aged sons and daughters to provide social support to older parents. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 57, 465–475.
42. Suitor, J. J., Pillemer, K., Keeton, S., & Robison, J. (1995). Aged parents and aging children: Determinants of relationship quality. In: R. Blieszner & V. H. Bedford (Eds), Handbook of Aging and the Family (pp. 223–242). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
43. Welsh, W. M., & Stewart, A. J. (1995). Relationships between women and their parents: Implications for midlife well-being. Psychology and Aging, 10, 181–190