Sources of older parents' ambivalent feelings toward their adult children: The case of rural China

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 420-430

  Guo, Man ^a   Chi, Iris ^b   Silverstein, Merril ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Family relations; Intergenerational ambivalence; Local context ; Sociological ambivalence

Indexed keywords

ADULT CHILD; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHINA; EMOTION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT CHILDREN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876533174     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbt022     Document Type: Article

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