Emotional relationship quality of adult children with ageing parents: On solidarity, conflict and ambivalence

European Journal of Ageing

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 253-265

  Ferring, Dieter ^a   Michels, Tom ^a   Boll, Thomas ^a   Filipp, Sigrun Heide ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adult offspring; Emotions; Intergenerational relations; Parent child relations; Taxonomies

Indexed keywords

EID: 71249131883     PISSN: 16139372     EISSN: 16139380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10433-009-0133-9     Document Type: Article

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