Change in Extended Family Living among Elderly People in South Korea, 1970-1980

Vos, Susan De; Lee, Yean-Ju

doi:10.1086/452016

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“…For example, the percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) spent on publicly funded old-age survivor benefits in South Korea is the lowest among the OECD countries (Kapteyn 2010). This lack of public support for the elderly, combined with the increasing prevalence of the nuclear family that may reduce the total amount of familial support for the elderly on average (De Vos and Lee 1993), raises concerns about the deterioration of quality of life in old age. South Korea also experienced rapid educational expansion in tandem with demographic changes.…”

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Education, Elderly Health, and Differential Population Aging in South Korea: A Demographic Approach

Kye¹,

Arenas

Teruel

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DemRes

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Section: Population Aging and Socioeconomic Development In South Koreamentioning

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Education, Elderly Health, and Differential Population Aging in South Korea: A Demographic Approach

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“…The primary reason for the much higher percentage of daughter-in-law caregivers among Koreans is very likely because of the cultural norm of filial piety, according to which the first son and his wife are obliged to repay a debt that includes making their parents comfortable and carrying out any difficult tasks for the parents (Chee & Levkoff, 2001;De Vos & Lee, 1993;Hsu, 1971;Kim, Kim, & Hurh, 1991). Filial piety involves "putting one's family members in a harmonious order by caring for one's parents with love, respect, responsibility, and desire to repay" (Sung, 1998).…”

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Depression among Korean, Korean American, and Caucasian American Family Caregivers

Lee

Farran

2004

J Transcult Nurs

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This study compared depressive symptoms among Korean, Korean American, and Caucasian American female family caregivers of older persons with dementia. The sample included Korean caregivers living in Seoul, Korea (KK); Korean American (KA) caregivers living in the Chicago and Los Angeles areas; and Caucasian American (CA) caregivers from the Chicago metropolitan area. KK caregivers were more likely to be daughters-in-law, KA caregivers were more likely to be daughters, and CA caregivers were more likely to be wives or daughters. Overall, wives were more depressed than daughters and daughters-in-law. KK caregivers were the most depressed of the three cultural groups. When caregiver relationship and cultural group were examined simultaneously, KK and KA wives were most depressed, and KA daughters-in-law were least depressed. Differences in culture and social role appeared to affect depressive symptoms among these caregivers. The findings suggest a need to further examine the associations between caregivers' relationships with their care recipients and their own emotional status. Keywordscross-cultural comparisons; depressive symptoms; caregiver relationships; family caregiving; Korean caregivers; Korean American caregivers; Caucasian American caregivers In the 10-year period between 1990 and 2000, the number of Korean Americans (KAs) in the United States increased by nearly 35%, from 797,304 to 1,076,872 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2001). As the number of KAs in the United States increases, the number of older Korean Americans will also increase, and the number of older persons who suffer from dementia may increase as well. However, little information is available about KA elders with dementia and their family caregivers.The literature has consistently noted that in the United States, family caregivers of older persons with dementia are at high risk for negative mental health outcomes, such as depression and anxiety (Pearlin, Mullan, Semple, & Skaff, 1990; Schulz, O'Brien, Bookwala, & Fleissner, 1995;Stommel, Given, & Given, 1990). Recent caregiver research also suggests that these poorer mental health outcomes may be associated with changes in caregiver physical health. One recent study found that among caregivers who were stressed, mortality rates were 63% higher than among those who were not stressed (Schulz & Beach, 1999). Fewer studies have addressed these issues from a cross-cultural perspective.Family caregiving by Koreans in Korea (KK) and by KAs might be expected to differ from caregiving by Euro-American descendants in the United States because of the different attitudes, norms, practices, and expectations for caregiving in traditional Korean culture. Studies have consistently found that KK caregivers were more likely to be female, younger, married, and sharing a household with their ill family member than American caregivers, and these differences may have resulted from different cultural practices or expectations about caregiving (Choi, 1993;Lee & Sung, 1997;Sung, 1994;Youn, Knight, Jeong, & Benton, ...

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“…Autonomous living arrangements provide the maximum utility, but are the most expensive; the concomitant rise in average income and nuclear households among native-born Americans in the 20th century is seen as evidence of economic effects on family structure [Michael et al, 1980;Schwartz et al, 1984; for an opposed view, emphasizing normative change, see Ruggles (1994a) and for the author's revision of that to a largely economic view, see Ruggles (in press)]. Recent trends in countries said to possess highly familistic cultures strengthen the case for economic factors in choice of living arrangements; for example, in Japan, Taiwan and Korea, the 'trend towards … living alone is unequivocal' (Palloni, 2000, p. 11;De Vos & Lee, 1988).…”

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Immigrants, their children, and theories of assimilation: Family structure in the United States, 1880–1970

Gratton

Gutmann

Skop

2007

The History of the Family

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This research employs United States census data from 1880 to 1970 to assess the influence of ethnicity and generation on the family structure of Mexican, Irish, Swedish, Italian, Polish, and native white children. Using evidence for three generations, it tests two theories, linear assimilation and segmented assimilation. Assimilation theory makes no special claims for ethnic effects, but segmented assimilation proposes that ethnicity influences the incorporation of immigrant-origin children into American society. We find few consistent ethnic effects on the probability of family type. Our principal finding is that migration itself, common to all groups, has similar consequences for all; these are revealed in generational changes in family structure. The historical periods of open immigration do differ from the contemporary period, which implies that immigration policy affects family structure. The results disconfirm segmented assimilation theory's emphasis on ethnicity in family structure, and confirm aspects of linear assimilation theory. They point to the salience of structural factors resulting from migration experience and policy, rather than ethnicity, in the evolution of family form among immigrant-origin persons.

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Change in Extended Family Living among Elderly People in South Korea, 1970-1980

Cited by 31 publications

References 11 publications

Education, Elderly Health, and Differential Population Aging in South Korea: A Demographic Approach

Education, Elderly Health, and Differential Population Aging in South Korea: A Demographic Approach

Depression among Korean, Korean American, and Caucasian American Family Caregivers

Immigrants, their children, and theories of assimilation: Family structure in the United States, 1880–1970

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