A comparative perspective on intergenerational support - Responsiveness to parental needs in individualistic and familialistic countries
A comparative perspective on intergenerational support - Responsiveness to parental needs in individualistic and familialistic countries
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DOI：
10.1080/14616690701744364
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
影响因子：
8.1
通讯作者：
Saraceno, Chiara
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作者：
Kalmijn, Matthijs;Saraceno, Chiara
人们常常认为，南欧国家在文化上比西欧和北方国家更熟悉。在本文中，我们检验这一概念的假设，即成年子女更敏感的需要，他们的老年父母在国家更熟悉的态度。为了验证这一假设，我们分析了欧洲健康、老龄化和退休调查（SHARE）。我们侧重于三个需求指标：（a）父母的伴侣状况，（B）父母的健康状况，（c）父母的教育。使用赫克曼概率模型，我们研究这些变量的影响，父母是否收到工具的支持，从儿童，从而控制是否独立生活的儿童从他们的父母。我们估计的需要支持的影响，我们比较这些影响在10个欧洲国家，使用图形设备和多层次概率模型，个人嵌套在国家。我们发现，在一个国家的需要变量和家庭的程度显着的跨层次的相互作用。因此，我们的分析为这一假设提供了比早期研究更积极的证据，早期研究主要侧重于比较各国的总体支持水平。
It has often been argued that Southern European countries are more familialistic in their culture than Western and Northern European countries. In this paper, we examine this notion by testing the hypothesis that adult children are more responsive to the needs of their elderly parents in countries with more familialistic attitudes. To test this hypothesis, we analyse the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We focus on three indicators of need: (a) the partner status of the parent, (b) the health status of the parent, and (c) the education of the parent. Using Heckman probit models, we examine the effects of these variables on whether or not the parent receives instrumental support from children, thereby controlling for whether or not children live independently from their parents. We estimate effects of need on support and we compare these effects across 10 European countries, using both graphic devices and a multilevel probit model where individuals are nested in countries. We find significant cross-level interactions of need variables and the degree of familialism in a country. Our analyses, thereby provide more positive evidence for the hypothesis than earlier studies, which have focused largely on comparing aggregate levels of support among countries.