Attitudes to ageing and expectations for filial piety across Chinese and British cultures: A pilot exploratory evaluation

Aging and Mental Health

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 283-292

  Laidlaw, Ken ^a   Wang, Dahua ^b   Coelho, Claudia ^a   Power, Mick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ageing; Attitudes to ageing; Confucianism; Culture; Filial piety

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTITUDE; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCOTLAND;

EID: 77951972637     PISSN: 13607863     EISSN: 13646915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13607860903483060     Document Type: Article

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