Reference : Emotional relationship quality of adult children whith ageing parents: On solidarity,...

	Document type :	Scientific journals : Article
	Discipline(s) :	Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Social, industrial & organizational psychology Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Multidisciplinary, general & others
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/2801

Title :	Emotional relationship quality of adult children whith ageing parents: On solidarity, conflict and ambivalence.
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Ferring, Dieter [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE) >]
	Michels, Tom [> >]
	Boll, Thomas [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE) >]
	Filipp, Sigrun-Heide [> >]
Publication date :	2009
Journal title :	European Journal of Ageing
Publisher :	Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
Volume :	6
Pages :	253-265
Peer reviewed :	Yes
Audience :	International
ISSN :	1613-9372
e-ISSN :	1613-9380
Keywords :	[en] intergenerational relations ; parent-child relations ; relationship quality ; adult offspring ; aging ; emotions ; taxonomies
Abstract :	[en] Emotions toward a relationship partner provide relevant and specific information about relationship quality. Based on this assumption the present study was performed to identify different types of emotional relationship quality of middle-aged adult children with their aging parents. This was done by cluster analytic procedures in a sample of 1,208 middle-aged adult children (482 men, 726 women). Using ratings of positive and negative emotions toward their mother and their father as grouping variables, the same four-cluster solution emerged for both the child-mother relationship and the child-father relationship. Clusters were labelled as amicable, disharmonious, detached, and ambivalent relationships. Results showed that especially amicable relationships clearly prevailed followed by ambivalent, detached, and disharmonious relationships. Clusters differed significantly with respect to gender of adult child, willingness to support, expected parental support, and overt conflicts. In a cross-classification of cluster membership regarding the child-mother relationship (4 clusters) and the child-father relationship (4 clusters), all possible 16 combinations were observed, with a considerable degree of divergence regarding the type of relationship quality within the same family. Results are discussed with respect to types of emotional relationship quality, within family differences, and the intrafamilial regulation of relationship quality.
Funders :	German Research Foundation
Name of the research project :	Parental Differential Treatment in Middle Adulthood: Dyadic and Longitudinal Analyses
Target :	Researchers ; Professionals
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/2801

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