The Association Between Filial Discrepancy and Depressive Symptoms: Findings From a Community-Dwelling Chinese Aging Population

Dong, XinQi; Li, Mengting; Hua, Yingxiao

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“…It is important that elderly parents embedded in inter-generational relationship actually enjoy them [ 27 ] as this is part of the Chinese traditional cultural of filial piety to take good care of old parents. Higher financial transfers from adult children may reflect a greater personal filial bonds and this may explain the lower risk of depressive symptoms [ 36 ]. Emotional support has a large influence on elders’ mental health [ 37 ] which may agree with our observation that a higher amount of financial transfers from adult children relates to to fewer depressive symptoms among the elders.…”

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Financial transfers from adult children and depressive symptoms among mid-aged and elderly residents in China - evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study

Dong

et al. 2018

BMC Public Health

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BackgroundAlthough the awareness of mental health problems in late life is rising, the association between financial transfers to the older generations from children and mental health at older ages in China has received little attention. This study examines the association between financial transfers from children and depressive symptoms among the mid-aged and elderly residents (from 45 years of age and older) in China.MethodsWe used the data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS, 2013) (n = 10,935) This included data on financial transfers from all non-co-resident children to their parents, and the individual scores on depressive symptoms as measured by the 10-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies–Depression Scale (CESD-10). A two-level - individual and community levels - mixed linear model was deployed to explore their association.ResultsFinancial transfers from children to parents was the major component of inter-generational financial transfers in Chinese families. A higher financial support from non-co-resident children was signivicantly and positively related to fewer depressive symptoms (coef. = − 0.195,P-value< 0.001) among both the mid-aged and elderly parents.ConclusionsFinancial transfers from non-co-resident children are associated with depressive symptoms among mid-aged and elderly residents in the China situation. Taxation and other policy measures should encourage and facilitate these type of financial transfers and prevent a decrease of support from children to parents.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12889-018-5794-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Financial transfers from adult children and depressive symptoms among mid-aged and elderly residents in China - evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study

Dong

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BMC Public Health

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“…To understand health equity issues in the United States, especially among the Chinese, researchers have noted the importance of examining the sociocultural contexts of Chinese older adults ( Dong & Chang, 2017 ; Dong, Li, & Hua, 2017 ; Dong & Wang, 2017 ), which include examinations and considerations of how an immigrant’s home country may influence their health in late life ( Sohn & Harada, 2004 ; Zhang & Ta, 2009 ; Zhou, 2012 ). Although there is a rich body of literature on the health of Chinese older adults in China, there is relatively less research focusing on changing social dynamics and how these phenomena may impact well-being in later life for Chinese older adults globally.…”

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Achieving Health Equity in Asian Populations

Dong

Simon²

2018

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine

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Research about Asian Americans and Asian health equity issues have significant gaps, in part, due to lack of funding and support for minority investigators and examinations of health in this population. This special issue is designed to further our understanding of Asian health equity, especially within the context of global Chinese populations to examine how sociocultural contexts impact aging and health. Through the findings reported in this special issue, we call for increased funding and support to minority research scholars to conduct research toward improving Asian health equity, with an emphasis on nuanced cultural contexts of this population.

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“…The experience of ambivalence possibly evokes stress and consequently diminishes well‐being . Immigrant parents and children may experience different paces of acculturation, and the cultural value discrepancies result in misunderstandings and ambivalence . Lack of filial obligation was one of the salient characteristics of unobligated ambivalence families in our sample.…”

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Typology of Family Relationship and Elder Mistreatment in a US Chinese Population

Guo

Stensland

et al. 2019

J American Geriatrics Society

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OBJECTIVES: To examine the associations between typology of family relationship and risk of elder mistreatment (EM). DESIGN: Population-based epidemiological cross-sectional study. SETTING: Community-dwelling older adults in the greater Chicago area. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 3157 US older Chinese immigrants. MEASUREMENTS: EM was measured by a brief screening tool. Latent class analysis was used to construct typologies of family relationship from eight indicators, evaluating the structural, associational, functional, affectual, and normative aspects of family relationship. Logistic regression models were used to test the associations between typology of family relationship and EM. RESULTS: Unobligated ambivalent type (44.77%) was the most common family type among US older Chinese immigrants. The prevalence of EM was around 15%, with 475 participants reporting experience of EM. Unobligated ambivalent (odds ratio [OR] = 1.90; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.54-2.34) and detached (OR = 1.78; 95% CI = 1.32-2.42) family types were associated with greater risk of EM; tight-knit (OR = .34; 95% CI = .27-.44) family type was associated with lower risk of EM. The relationship between commanding conflicted family type and EM was not significant. CONCLUSION: Unobligated ambivalent family type, featured by high emotional closeness and high family conflict, was prevalent among US Chinese families and associated with EM consequences. Culturally customized social services are suggested to reduce intergenerational ambivalence and promote family harmony for immigrant families. J Am Geriatr Soc 67:S493-S498, 2019.

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The Association Between Filial Discrepancy and Depressive Symptoms: Findings From a Community-Dwelling Chinese Aging Population

Cited by 31 publications

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Financial transfers from adult children and depressive symptoms among mid-aged and elderly residents in China - evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study

Financial transfers from adult children and depressive symptoms among mid-aged and elderly residents in China - evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study

Achieving Health Equity in Asian Populations

Typology of Family Relationship and Elder Mistreatment in a US Chinese Population

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