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Parental Practices and Willingness to Ask for Children's Help Later in Life

Author(s) -

Carmi Schooler,

Andrew J. Revell,

Leslie J. Caplan

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

the journals of gerontology series b

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1758-5368

pISSN - 1079-5014

DOI - 10.1093/geronb/62.3.p165

Subject(s) - ask price , psychology , willingness to pay , dominance (genetics) , offspring , developmental psychology , affect (linguistics) , willingness to accept , style (visual arts) , social psychology , pregnancy , finance , economics , history , biochemistry , chemistry , genetics , communication , archaeology , biology , gene , microeconomics

We examine how parents' relationships with their 13- to 25-year-old offspring affect the parents' willingness to ask them for help with financial and personal problems 20 years later. Husbands and wives were interviewed in 1974 and 1994; a child was interviewed in 1974. We used two aspects of parental style, responsiveness and restrictive dominance, to predict parents' willingness to request help from a child 20 years later. Structural equation modeling analyses revealed the following: (a) mothers' willingness to ask an adult child for help with a personal problem was increased by higher levels of responsiveness; (b) mothers' willingness to ask for financial help was increased by responsive and decreased by restrictive-dominant maternal behavior; and (c) neither responsive nor restrictive-dominant paternal behavior affected fathers' later willingness to ask an adult child for help of either kind.

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