Intergenerational Relations Across 4 Years: Well-being Is Affected by Quality, Not by Support Exchange | Zendy

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Intergenerational Relations Across 4 Years: Well-being Is Affected by Quality, Not by Support Exchange

Author(s) -

EvaMaria Merz,

Carlo Schuengel,

HansJoachim Schulze

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

the gerontologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524

H-Index - 138

eISSN - 1758-5341

pISSN - 0016-9013

DOI - 10.1093/geront/gnp043

Subject(s) - emotional support , psychology , developmental psychology , quality (philosophy) , kinship , social support , family support , balance (ability) , longitudinal data , panel data , social psychology , demography , medicine , political science , sociology , philosophy , epistemology , neuroscience , law , physical therapy , statistics , mathematics

Providing support to an aging parent may pose challenges to adult children but also provide an opportunity to "give back" to loved ones. The current study investigated changes in emotional and instrumental support and quality across a period of 4 years. Additionally, associations between intergenerational support and well-being in adult children over time were investigated.

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