"Grand" Expectations: The Experiences of Grandparents and Adult Grandchildren

Kemp, Candace L.

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“…This intergenerational gap is the result of the rapid change of a society which makes it not feasible to meet the expectations of older mothers to be taken care by their children in later life (Lau and Kwok, 1997). As familial norms set standards for behaviour and establish obligations and expectations of family members (Mangen and Westbrook, 1988), the new, diverse and complex patterns of family life provide different normative guidelines on how parents and children perform their roles and how they negotiate their relationships (Kemp, 2004).…”

Section: Many Researchers Have Found That Intergenerational Differencmentioning

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“…The co-existence of modern and traditional family values and norms increases the likelihood of creating tensions and contradictions between generations (Kemp, 2004).…”

Section: Many Researchers Have Found That Intergenerational Differencmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More recently, the concept of "ambivalence" has been proposed as a basis for a deeper understanding of family relationship (Kemp, 2004;Lüscher and Pillemer, 1998).…”

Section: The Intergenerational Ambivalence Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Based on this earlier formulation of concept, Lüscher and Pillemer (1998) propose "intergenerational ambivalence" as an alternative approach to study intergenerational relationships in regards to the conflict and solidarity perspectives noted earlier (Kemp, 2004) (The definitions of ambivalence is summarized in Appendix II).…”

Section: Concepts Of Ambivalencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…At the structural level, ambivalence can arise in the form of competing role expectations or demands (Kemp, 2004). At the subjective level, it includes the coexistence of positive and negative emotions (Kemp, 2004;Lüscher and Pillemer, 1998).…”

Section: Concepts Of Ambivalencementioning

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Older mothers' expectations of intergenerational relationships : the intergenerational ambivalence perspective

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“…The co-existence of modern and traditional family values and norms increases the likelihood of creating tensions and contradictions between generations (Kemp, 2004).…”

Section: Many Researchers Have Found That Intergenerational Differencmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More recently, the concept of "ambivalence" has been proposed as a basis for a deeper understanding of family relationship (Kemp, 2004;Lüscher and Pillemer, 1998).…”

Section: The Intergenerational Ambivalence Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Concepts Of Ambivalencementioning

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Living Arrangement Concordance and its Association with Self-Rated Health Among Institutionalized and Community-Residing Older Adults in China

Sereny

2011

J Cross Cult Gerontol

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Although many studies look at the relationship between living arrangement and health among older adults, very little research takes seniors' preferred living arrangements into account. This paper uses data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) to examine what factors are associated with concordance between actual and preferred living arrangements for both institutionalized and community-residing Chinese seniors, and to investigate associations between living arrangement concordance and self-rated health. Our analyses show that economic independence is negatively associated with living arrangement concordance among institutionalized older adults (net of other factors), while being older, female, minority ethnicity, having higher SES, and being unmarried are positively associated with living arrangement concordance among community-residing seniors. For both institutionalized and community-residing older adults, living arrangement concordance increases the likelihood of rating self-rated health as good, with concordance having a greater impact on health for institutionalized elders (odds-ratios of 1.67-1.93) than for community-residing elders (odds-ratios of 1.12).

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Family fortunes: The persisting grandparents' effects in contemporary British society

Zhang

2019

Social Science Research

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This study examines grandparents' effects on grandchildren in contemporary British society. We begin with grandchildren's occupational aspiration in their adolescent years and move on to assess their educational and class attainment in adulthood. Using the British Household Panel Survey and the UK Household Longitudinal Study, we find persisting grandparental effects in all three domains even after controlling for parents' socioeconomic cultural resources and other demographic and contextual factors. In addition, we find that self-employed grandparents have a strong impact on grandsons' (albeit not on granddaughters') likelihood of engagement in selfemployment, a pattern that holds true even when parents are not self-employed. Our study shows that grandparents' class still affects grandchildren's life chances in contemporary UK society just as earlier research showed for mid-20th century Britain and that the effects are manifested at different stages of the life course, from occupational aspiration as teenagers to educational attainment as young adults to occupational destination as adults.

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"Grand" Expectations: The Experiences of Grandparents and Adult Grandchildren

Cited by 21 publications

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Older mothers' expectations of intergenerational relationships : the intergenerational ambivalence perspective

Older mothers' expectations of intergenerational relationships : the intergenerational ambivalence perspective

Living Arrangement Concordance and its Association with Self-Rated Health Among Institutionalized and Community-Residing Older Adults in China

Family fortunes: The persisting grandparents' effects in contemporary British society

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