Intergenerational Support for the Elderly in Indonesia

描述（由申请人提供）：该研究分析了与家庭变化相关的个人特征与印度尼西亚成年子女为其老年父母提供支持的类型和水平之间的关系。这里的支持是指金钱、货物、时间和共同居住。自1970年代以来，印度尼西亚经历了深刻的社会、经济和人口变化，据推测，这些变化影响了家庭的社会组织。理论上，伴随这些变化而来的家庭社会组织的一个变化是核心家庭结构的增长。在印度尼西亚，这可能对老年人的福利产生重大的不利影响，因为对老年人的支助大多采取共同居住的形式。 该研究分析了印度尼西亚家庭生活调查的三次浪潮（IFLS-1/1993、IFLS-2/1997、IFLS- 3/2000）和人类学文献，以解决三个具体目标：（一）开发一系列多变量回归模型，以检查成年子女为其老年父母提供的支持类型和数量与关键家庭变化特征以及其他社会经济和人口统计学特征，（2）检查成年子女和老年父母在调查波之间过渡到和离开共同居住的可能性，以及（3）分析成年子女向老年父母提供的支持，特别关注种族及其相关文化规范的重要性。 这项研究将有助于我们了解代际支持的老年人在印度尼西亚通过分析结构性成果的发展，通过关键的家庭变化的特点，标准的社会经济和人口特征，和文化规范的综合影响。因此，拟议的研究旨在提供洞察这些不同的力量如何创建，维持和转变支持关系。拟议的研究将导致提交三份手稿和制定一项R 01提案。未来的工作将集中在（1）老年父母的观点;（2）基于兄弟姐妹特征的其他自变量;（3）主观，客观和社区健康变量的检查。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The research analyzes the relationship between individual characteristics associated with family change and the type and level of support adult children provide their elderly parents in Indonesia. Support here refers to money, goods, time and co-residence. Since the 1970s, Indonesia has undergone profound social, economic, and demographic changes that are hypothesized to affect the social organization of the family. One change in the social organization of the family that has been theorized to accompany these changes is the growth of nucleated family structures. In Indonesia, this could have a significant and adverse impact on the well being of the elderly because most support for the elderly takes the form of co-residence. The research analyzes three waves of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS-1/1993, IFLS-2/1997, IFLS- 3/2000) and anthropological literature to address three specific aims: (1) develop a series of multivariate regression models to examine the relationship between the type and amount of support an adult child provides their elderly parents and key family change characteristics and other socioeconomic and demographic traits, (2) examine the likelihood that an adult child and elderly parent will transition into and out of co-residence between survey waves, and (3) analyze the support an adult child provides their elderly parent(s) with a specific focus on the significance of ethnicity and its associated cultural norms. The study will contribute to our understanding of intergenerational support for the elderly in Indonesia by analyzing the combined effect of structural outcomes of development as viewed through key family change characteristics, standard socioeconomic and demographic traits, and cultural norms. As a result, the proposed study seeks to provide insight into how these different forces create, maintain, and transform support relationships. The proposed study will result in submission of three manuscripts and the development of an R01 proposal. Future work will focus on (1) the perspective of the elderly parent; (2) additional independent variables based on sibling characteristics; and (3) examination of subjective, objective, and community health variables.