Intergenerational Relationship Quality Across Three Generations

Birditt, Kira S.; Tighe, Lauren A.; Fingerman, Karen L.; Zarit, Steven H.

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“…The items were averaged to create a negative mother and a negative father relationship quality score (Wave 1: r s = .54, .54; Wave 2: r s = .62, .62, respectively). The small number of relationship items may underestimate the reliability of the negative quality scale (Carmines & Zeller, 1979), although similar reliability estimates are found in other research using the same or similar relationship items (Birditt et al, 2010; Birditt, Tighe, Fingerman, & Zarit, 2012; Fingerman et al, 2008; Umberson, 1992). …”

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Intergenerational ambivalence in adolescence and early adulthood: Implications for depressive symptoms over time.

Tighe¹,

Birditt²,

Antonucci³

2016

Developmental Psychology

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The parent-child relationship is often characterized by ambivalence, defined as the simultaneous experience of positive and negative relationship quality. This study examines reports of intergenerational ambivalence in three developmental periods: adolescence, emerging adulthood, and young adulthood, as well as its implications for depressive symptoms over a 12-year period. Participants aged 13 to 29 (n = 255) were interviewed in 1992 and again in 2005 at ages 25 to 41 (n = 186). Results indicate that offspring's reports of intergenerational ambivalence decreased over time. Greater ambivalence towards mothers predicted increased depressive symptoms over time while greater ambivalence towards fathers predicted decreased depressive symptoms over time. These results suggest that depressive symptoms in adulthood are vulnerable to the quality of the parent-child relationship earlier in the life course.

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Intergenerational ambivalence in adolescence and early adulthood: Implications for depressive symptoms over time.

Tighe¹,

Birditt²,

Antonucci³

2016

Developmental Psychology

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“…More recently begun, the Family Exchanges Study (FES) interviewed more than 600 three‐generation families between 2008 and 2013. Taken together, the PSID, LSOG, FTP, and FES have facilitated the examination of a wide range of multigenerational topics, such as class mobility (Hertel & Groh‐Samberg, ), the transmission of health and health behaviors (Davis, McGonagle, Schoeni, & Stafford, ), intergenerational relationship quality (Birditt et al, ), the transmission of beliefs and values (Bengtson, Copen, Putney, & Silverstein, ), and the role of genetic, environmental, and epigenetic factors (Conger, Belsky, & Capaldi, ).…”

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Linked Lives and Cumulative Inequality: A Multigenerational Family Life Course Framework

Gilligan

Karraker

Jasper

2018

J of Family Theo & Revie

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“…Although parent-child and in-law ties have unique dimensions, both types of intergenerational relationships are primarily theorized within a solidarity-conflict perspective (Birditt, Tighe, Fingerman, & Zarit, 2012). This approach emphasizes that both solidarity and conflict are normative aspects of intergenerational ties from adolescence to later life (Bengtson, Rosenthal, & Burton, 1995;Lowenstein, 2007;Silverstein & Bengtson, 1997) and highlights six dimensions of intergenerational relationships: affectual solidarity (e.g., emotional attachment), associational solidarity (e.g., frequency of contact), consensual solidarity (e.g., agreement on values), functional solidarity (e.g., exchange of resources), normative solidarity (e.g., commitment to family obligations), and structural solidarity (e.g., structural contexts) (Bengtson, Giarrusso, Mabry, & Silverstein, RECZEK 2002).…”

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The Intergenerational Relationships of Gay Men and Lesbian Women

Reczek

2014

The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences an

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Reczek, C. (2014). The intergenerational relationships of gay men and lesbian women. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 69(6), 909-919, doi:10.1093 Objectives. Despite the demonstrated importance of intergenerational ties across the life course, few studies examine relationships between gay men and lesbians and their later life parents and parents-in-law. The present study examines how midlife to later life gay men and lesbians in intimate partnerships conceptualize these intergenerational ties.Method. Qualitative analysis of 50 in-depth interviews collected with midlife to later life gay men and lesbians (ages 40-72) in long-term intimate partnerships.Results. Findings reveal 4 central ways respondents describe supportive parent-child and parent-child in-law relationships: integration, inclusion through language, social support, and affirmations. Findings reveal 3 central ways individuals distinguish strained parent-child and parent-child in-law relationships: rejection in everyday life, traumatic events, and the threat of being usurped. Findings further articulate how intergenerational ambivalence is distinguished through descriptions of a parent as simultaneously supportive (via subthemes of solidarity) and rejecting (via subthemes of strain).Discussion. Findings from this study provide empirical evidence of how support, strain, and ambivalence in intergenerational ties are identified and experienced by gay men and lesbian women. This study reveals a new lens to view relationships between midlife to later life adults and their aging parents and parents-in-law and further identifies linkages between solidarity-conflict and ambivalence paradigms.

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Intergenerational Relationship Quality Across Three Generations

Abstract: Findings are consistent with the intergenerational stake hypothesis and only partially consistent with the theory of intergenerational transmission. Overall, this study suggests that there is greater within-family variability than similarities in how family members feel about one another.

Cited by 68 publications

References 52 publications

Intergenerational ambivalence in adolescence and early adulthood: Implications for depressive symptoms over time.

Intergenerational ambivalence in adolescence and early adulthood: Implications for depressive symptoms over time.

Linked Lives and Cumulative Inequality: A Multigenerational Family Life Course Framework

The Intergenerational Relationships of Gay Men and Lesbian Women

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