PARENT CARING AND THE MOTHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP

一项纵向研究将检查对以下各项的影响 改变老年寡妇和老年人之间的相互依赖模式 照顾她们的女儿们。具有基线的母女对 评估是一个样本。这项研究将测试这些 假设：(A)强制性照料、照料提供(非 管理)，对需求和健康的不同看法，以及 随着时间的推移，护理的增加与亲密程度呈负相关， 附件和收益，并与成本呈正相关； 夫妻关系质量高，妈妈们越来越多 依靠女儿来平衡他们的关系交流； (C)高质量的关系与 对母亲决策能力的评估和 关于未来护理的决定和行动；及(D)酌情- 在高质量、互惠的交换中照顾女儿 恋爱关系中的丧亲之痛更为艰难。有目的的 样本是150名老年寡妇和她们的主要照顾者 女儿；50对对照夫妇不需要照顾。DYAD成员 将单独接受采访。措施将评估感知到的 亲密关系、依恋、护理需求、护理原因、费用 照顾的好处，提供的帮助，母亲的决定- 做出能力，做出决定，采取行动 未来的护理。两人都将在9年内报告前一天的活动 电话采访。失去亲人的女儿将在 母亲去世的6个月和几乎每年的周年纪念日。 重复测量MANOVA将显示个人和之间- 随时间的群体差异：(A)关系质量和成本 以及父母照顾提供的照顾与照顾的好处 管理性、强制性与自主性照看和配对 其中关怀随着时间的推移而增加；(B)母亲的帮助和感知 高质量产品与低质量产品的成本和收益 关系和关怀有所增加的关系；及(C) 高素质与低素质女儿的丧亲之痛 关系，互惠与非互惠的援助交换模式， 可自由支配与强制照顾的对比。卡方分析 将评估在能力、决策和行动方面的差异 未来在高质量和低质量关系之间的关怀。这个 学习很重要，因为两者之间的联系 代际关系和生活质量。长期的 目标是保持母亲和女儿的互惠 支持来源，并确定老年人的生活方式 活跃的社交伙伴。

A longitudinal study will examine influences on and the impact of changing interdependence patterns between elderly widows and their caregiving daughters. Mother/daughter pairs with baseline assessments are the sample. The study will test these hypotheses: (a) obligatory caregiving, care provision (not management), differing perceptions of need and health, and increases in care over time are negatively related to intimacy, attachment, and benefits and positively related to costs; (b) in pairs with high relationship quality, mothers' increasingly dependent on their daughters balance their relational exchanges; (c) high-quality relationships are positively associated with assessments of mothers' decision-making competence and decisions and actions for future care; and (d) discretionary- caregiving daughters in high-quality, reciprocal-exchange relationships have a more difficult bereavement. The purposive sample is 150 elderly widows and their primary-caregiving daughters; 50 control pairs have no care needed. Dyad members will be interviewed separately. Measures will assess perceived intimacy, attachment, care needs, reasons for caregiving, costs and benefits of caregiving, help provided, mother's decision- making competence, and decisions made and actions taken for future care. Both will report on previous day's activities in 9 telephone interviews. Bereaved daughters will be interviewed at 6 months and near-yearly anniversaries of the mother's death. Repeated-measures MANOVAs will show individual and between- group differences over time in: (a) relationship quality and costs and benefits of parent caring for care providing vs. care managing, obligatory vs. discretionary caregiving, and pairs wherein care increased over time; (b) mother's aid and perceived costs and benefits for those in higher- vs. lower-quality relationships and those wherein care increased; and (c) bereavement for daughters with higher- vs. lower-quality relationships, reciprocal vs. nonreciprocal aid-exchange patterns, and discretionary vs. obligatory caregiving. Chi-square analyses will assess differences in competence, decisions, and actions for future care between high- and low-quality relationships. The study is important because of the connection between intergenerational relationships and quality of life. Long-term objectives are to maintain mothers and daughters as reciprocal support sources and to identify ways in which the elderly are active social partners.