Older mother's health and adult children's education: Conceptualization of adult children's education and mother-child relationships.
Older mother's health and adult children's education: Conceptualization of adult children's education and mother-child relationships.
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高龄母亲健康与成年子女教育：成年子女教育与母子关系的概念化。
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10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100390
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2019
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Suitor,JJill
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Peng,Siyun;Bauldry,Shawn;Gilligan,Megan;Suitor,JJill
这项研究加入并扩展了一项新兴的研究工作，通过以下方式研究成年子女教育与其父母健康之间的关系：（1）提供成年子女教育的概念性治疗；（2）研究成年子女教育与高龄母亲身心健康之间的联系；（3）调查母子关系是否调节儿童教育与母亲健康之间的关系。作为家庭内部差异研究的一部分，收集了 541 名美国老年母亲的数据，这些母亲报告了其所有成年子女的情况。结果表明，成年子女教育的最佳衡量标准，即具有大学或更高学位的比例，反映了累积的、基于证书的方法。此外，排除母亲自身教育程度以及一些社会人口因素和成年子女的衡量标准，具有大学或更高学历的成年子女的比例与母亲的抑郁症状和活动限制保持负相关。没有证据表明母子关系的各个方面（地理位置接近、接触频率和关系质量）调节了这些负面关联。
This study joins and extends an emerging body of work examining the association between adult children's education and their parents' health by (1) providing a conceptual treatment of adult children's education, (2) examining the link between adult children's education and older mothers' physical and mental health, and (3) investigating whether mother-child relationships moderate the association between children's education and mothers' health. Data on 541 older mothers in the U.S. who reported on all of their adult children collected as part of the Within-Family Differences Study. Results indicate the best performing measure of adult children's education, the proportion with a college degree or higher, reflects a cumulative, credential-based approach. In addition, the proportion of adult children with a college degree or higher maintains a negative association with mother's depressive symptoms and activity limitations net of mother's own education as well as a number of sociodemographic factors and adult children's measures. There was no evidence that various aspects of mother-child relationships (geographic proximity, frequency of contact, and quality of relationships) moderated these negative associations.