Happiness in Midlife Parental Roles: A Contextual Mixed Methods Analysis

Mitchell, Barbara

doi:10.1111/j.1741-3729.2010.00605.x

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“…In fact, this change on the vision of the role that nuclear family has in modern societies began when this family model started to be considered as the basis of a decadent society (Beck-Gernsheim, 2002). Hence, from mid of 1950's to nowadays, family's functions and forms have been modified, however, and despite of these changes, research shows that family continues having a fundamental role in children's socialization (Mitchell, 2010;Rollins and Hunter, 2013;Höppner, 2017).…”

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The Language of Ethics and Double Standards in the Affective and Sexual Socialization of Youth. Communicative Acts in the Family Environment as Protective or Risk Factors of Intimate Partner Violence

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One of the explanatory factors for the perpetuation of intimate partner violence (IPV) is the socialization process. There is broad literature on the role of family in socializing gender roles and the influence on reproducing IPV. However, less research has been developed on the effects of communicative acts in the family environment as a protective or risk factor in front of IPV. This article presents sound evidence confirming the presence of language of ethics that is reproducing stereotyped models of attraction in heterosexual relationships, which empties good people of attractiveness and indirectly contributes to maintain the link between desire and aggressiveness. The language of ethics is characterized by integrating speech acts that exclusively include ethics and exclude desire when talking about egalitarian boys or men. To analyze this reality, a qualitative study has been conducted framed in the communicative methodology. This methodology has been recommended by the European Commission to conduct research on vulnerable groups and social inequalities, which has the aim to advance knowledge on social transformation. Drawing on this approach, three different data-collection techniques have been implemented: in-depth interviews, daily-life stories and focus groups. The fieldwork includes a sample of 52 young men and women between the ages of 18 and 23 from a vocational training high school, and 4 fathers and 4 mothers of some of these young people. The findings confirm the existence of a model of socialization that replicates family relations based on the maintenance of the double standards. Thus, mothers used to employ the language of ethics with their daughters fostering a controversial effect, that is, the latter prefer to start affective and sexual relationships with boys who are aggressive and not egalitarian. On the other hand, fathers used to employ language of desire with their sons stimulating the performance of chauvinist behaviors that denigrate women and girls.

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The Language of Ethics and Double Standards in the Affective and Sexual Socialization of Youth. Communicative Acts in the Family Environment as Protective or Risk Factors of Intimate Partner Violence

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“…Then the interviewers paused a second and asked, "All in all, on a scale of 1-6 with 1 being 'not at all satisfied' and 6 being 'extremely satisfied,' how satisfied are you with being a parent?" Similar one-item measurement was used in previous studies (Mitchell, 2010). Responses were highly skewed to "5 very" or "6 extremely" satisfied (n=280, 64.81%), with the rest of responses containing less satisfactory options ranging from "1 not at all satisfied", "2 not too satisfied", "3 somewhat satisfied" to "4 fairly satisfied".…”

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“…In a review of parental satisfaction research focusing mainly on parenting young children, Goetting (1986) concluded that "very little can be stated with any degree of certainty regarding satisfaction in the parental role" due largely to "the paucity of research efforts expended in this direction". Twenty-four years after Goetting's review, Mitchell (2010) extended this work to further explore components of midlife parental satisfaction using the parent-focal child information. She found that income satisfaction, emotional closeness to the study child, parents' main activity (e.g., paid work, retired, or other), health, age, ethnic background, and perceptions of how children "turn out" influence midlife Canadian parents' subjective levels of satisfaction.…”

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“…They may thus likely be more sensitive to adult children's non-filial behaviors compared to those living in other cultures. Yet, little attention has been paid in previous studies to the cultural context in which parental roles are experienced (Mitchell, 2010). The current study aims to address these gaps in the literature by identifying factors associated with parental satisfaction in late adulthood using a sample of 432 older Chinese parents with 1,223 grown children living in a "below poverty level" county in northern China.…”

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Correlates of parental satisfaction: a study of late life family relationships in a rural county in China

Yang¹,

Wen²

2015

IJPS

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This study aims to identify correlates of satisfaction in late life parental role, using a sample of 432 older parents (not couples) aged 60 to 79 with 1,223 adult children living in one of the least developed counties of northern China. Drawing upon the symbolic interactionism perspective and Chinese cultural emphasis on filial piety, we tested a parental satisfaction model including a set of variables capturing parental perceptions of relationship quality with each of their grown children (hereafter offspring), expectations of various forms of support from offspring, and evaluations of offspring's filial piety (being filial). Most parents in our sample were satisfied with their parental role. Logistic regression analysis indicated that getting along with offspring, offspring met parental expectations in terms of providing emotional, practical, and financial support, and offspring being filial were significantly associated with parental satisfaction, respectively, net of parent and offspring characteristics. When simultaneously examined in the full model, however, only two correlates remained significant: getting along with offspring and offspring being filial. Offspring's filial piety was associated with parental satisfaction in a dose-response manner, indicating the importance of considering multiple children in a family on parental wellbeing. Findings underscore the significance of parental perceptions of relationship quality with offspring and offspring's filial piety for parental satisfaction. Findings suggest that filial piety, a multifaceted concept deeply rooted in Confucianism, continues to exert a strong influence today on Chinese family relationships despite the dramatic socioeconomic and cultural transformation China has been experiencing in the past three decades.

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“…The family relationship is related to the health and well-being of each family member [1][2][3][4][5]. At the same time, the cultural context forms the expectations of parents and children for the family relationship.…”

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Parent-child Relationship and Filial Piety Affect Parental Health and Well-being

2017

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The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of parent-child relationship, filial piety and adult children's concept of family on the health and well-being of their parents. Data were obtained from the Panel Study of Family Dynamics in Taiwan, 2005Taiwan, -2011. The sample comprised parents with repeated measures and one wave data from their adult children (208 persons with 1,336 observations). The parent-child relationship predicted self-rated health for both fathers and mothers and predicted the life satisfaction of mothers. Filial piety was positively related to self-rated health of mothers but was negatively related to self-rate health of fathers.

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Happiness in Midlife Parental Roles: A Contextual Mixed Methods Analysis

Cited by 21 publications

References 29 publications

The Language of Ethics and Double Standards in the Affective and Sexual Socialization of Youth. Communicative Acts in the Family Environment as Protective or Risk Factors of Intimate Partner Violence

The Language of Ethics and Double Standards in the Affective and Sexual Socialization of Youth. Communicative Acts in the Family Environment as Protective or Risk Factors of Intimate Partner Violence

Correlates of parental satisfaction: a study of late life family relationships in a rural county in China

Parent-child Relationship and Filial Piety Affect Parental Health and Well-being

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