Returns home by children and changes in parents' well-being in Europe
Returns home by children and changes in parents' well-being in Europe
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.01.016
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发表时间：
2018-03-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Grundy, Emily
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作者：
Tosi, Marco;Grundy, Emily
同居的成年子女可能是老年父母情感和工具支持的来源，但也是冲突和压力的来源。以往的研究结果远未得出结论，表明跨代共同居住可能对父母的抑郁症状和身体健康有负面和正面的影响。我们分析了欧洲健康，老龄化和退休调查（2007-2015）的四波纵向数据，以研究成年子女返回父母家中是否与50-75岁父母生活质量的变化有关。固定效应线性回归模型的结果显示，成年子女返回父母家与父母生活质量下降有关，这在很大程度上反映了与子女返回“空巢”（没有其他子女仍然共同居住）相关的下降。根据以前的研究表明不同的影响，共同居住父母的抑郁症状的文化传统，这种影响在很大程度上是由父母的生活质量下降，在北欧/社会民主党的分组。父母的生活质量的变化和返回的孩子的特征之间没有关联，虽然失业的孩子是负的，和新的伙伴关系的孩子，积极与父母的生活质量的变化。
Co-resident adult children may be a source of emotional and instrumental support for older parents, but also a source of conflict and stress. Results from previous research are far from conclusive and indicate that inter generational co-residence may have both negative and positive effects on parents' depressive symptoms and physical health. We analyse longitudinal data from four waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (2007-2015) to examine whether returns to the parental home by adult children are associated with changes in the quality of life of parents aged 50-75. Results from fixed effects linear regression models show that returns to the parental home by adult children were associated with decreases in parents' quality of life and that this largely reflected declines associated with the return of a child to an 'empty nest' where no other children were still co-resident. In line with previous research which has indicated differing effects of co-residence on parents' depressive symptoms by cultural tradition, this effect was largely driven by decreases in parents' quality of life in a grouping of Nordic/social-democratic. There were no associations between changes in parental quality of life and the returning child's characteristics, although unemployment of a child was negatively, and new partnership of a child, positively associated with changes in parental quality of life.