Negotiating care: ties between aging mothers and their caregiving daughters.
Negotiating care: ties between aging mothers and their caregiving daughters.
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谈判照顾：年迈的母亲和照顾她们的女儿之间的关系。
DOI：
10.1093/geronb/59.6.s324
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2004
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Walker,AlexisJ
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McGraw,LoriA;Walker,AlexisJ
目标。使用女权主义社会建构主义的视角，阐明年迈的母亲和她们照顾孩子的女儿如何协商联系、自主和冲突等问题。方法。我们对 31 对白人母女之间的互动录像进行了定性分析。结果。我们发现，母亲和女儿大多 (a) 专心、反应灵敏，(b) 保留了母亲的自主权，(c) 最大限度地减少公开冲突和紧张局势。录像带上可见的微妙行为线索也暴露了这些关系中潜在的情绪紧张。这些线索提醒我们注意配对之间关系质量的重要差异。出现了三种关系模式：（a）对称连接，（b）不对称连接，（c）对称约束。讨论。我们的探索性研究表明，自主性和联系之间的平衡是这些母女照顾关系成功的基础。不仅对于体弱的母亲来说，满足照顾女儿的需求很重要，对于女儿来说，支持母亲的自主和独立也很重要。我们的研究还强调了在这些关系中专注的重要性。即使母亲因疾病和身体虚弱而无力照顾女儿的生活，成双成对的女儿也会以细心的方式与母亲互动。在有限的配对中，代际伴侣都没有专心。
Objectives.Using a feminist social constructionist perspective, we illuminate how aging mothers and their caregiving daughters negotiate issues of connection, autonomy, and conflict.Methods.We conducted a qualitative analysis of videotaped interactions between 31 White mother–daughter pairs.Results.We found that the mothers and daughters mostly (a) were attentive and responsive, (b) preserved mothers' autonomy, and (c) minimized open conflict and tension. Subtle behavioral cues visible on the videotapes also exposed underlying emotional tension in these relationships. These cues alerted us to important variation in relationship quality among the pairs. Three patterns of relating emerged: (a) symmetrically connected, (b) asymmetrically connected, and (c) symmetrically constrained.Discussion.Our exploratory study suggests that a balance between autonomy and connection is fundamental to the success of these mother–daughter caregiving relationships. Not only is it important for frail mothers to be responsive to their caregiving daughter's needs, but also it is important for daughters to support the autonomy and independence of their mothers. Our study also highlights the importance of attentiveness in these relationships. Even when mothers, because of illness and frailty, were less capable of attending to their daughters' lives, daughters in connected pairs interacted with their mothers in attentive ways. In constrained pairs, neither intergenerational partner was attentive.