PARENT-ADULT CHILD RELATIONS: WITHIN FAMILY DIFFERENCES

说明(改编自调查者摘要)：拟议的研究将 在以后的生活中调查亲子关系中的家庭差异。 访谈将对600名具有代表性的母亲进行 在65岁到75岁之间居住在波士顿地区，他们的丈夫，如果 以及家庭中的所有成年子女。非洲裔美国人将成为 抽样过多。这项研究将考察成年子女在多大程度上 同一个家庭与年迈的父母的关系不同， 解释这些差异的因素。主要的研究问题是：1)什么 是家庭内部父母-成年子女关系的差异程度 晚年家庭？2)家庭内部差异的决定因素是什么 在亲子关系中？三组预测值将被检验为 关系质量的决定因素：亲子身份相似； 发展历史；交换和股权特征。这项研究将 关注家庭内部差异的影响，而不是个人 每个儿童的结构和发展特点。

DESCRIPTION (adapted from Investigator's abstract): The proposed study will investigate within-family differences in parent-child relations in later life. Interviews will be conducted with a representative sample of 600 mothers between the ages of 65 and 75 living in the Boston area, their husbands, if available, and all the adult children in the family. African Americans will be over sampled. The study will examine the degree to which adult children in the same family differ in their relationships with elderly parents, as well as the factors explaining these differences. The major research questions are: 1) what is the extent of within-family differences in parent-adult child relations in later-life families? 2) What are the determinants of within-family differences in parent-child relations? Three sets of predictors will be examined as determinants of relationship quality: status similarity of parent and child; developmental history; and exchange and equity characteristics. The study will focus on the effects of within-family differences rather than individual structural and developmental characteristics of each child.