The relation between attachment and intergenerational support

Schwarz, Beate; Trommsdorff, Gisela

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“…The measure of instrumental solidarity focuses on the degree of (among others) emotional, instrumental, and financial support given and received by elderly parents. Schwarz and Trommsdorff (2005) measured instrumental support too. The scale they used refers to giving and receiving help related to household chores, official business and care in times of illness.…”

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“…Daatland and Lowenstein (2005) focus on intergenerational family solidarity in urban populations of five countries with diverse family cultures (more individualistic versus more collectivistic) and different levels of welfare state provisions for the elderly (social and medical services and legal family obligations). In the psychological studies of PerrigChiello and Ho¨pflinger (2005) and Schwarz and Trommsdorff (2005), the focus is on help and support, given to and received from adult children and aging parents.…”

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“…How this diversity emerges from the use of different concepts and instruments can be illustrated by the comparison between the operationalization of solidarity dimensions and support types in the Daatland and Lowenstein (2005) and Schwarz and Trommsdorff (2005) study, respectively. The concept and measure of intergenerational solidarity introduced by Bengtson and Roberts (1991) refer to different forms of relatedness within aging families, such as interactions, sentiments, attitudes, commitments and helping behaviors.…”

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“…The third cross-national study focuses on grandparents as users of new communication technologies in the relationship with their grandchildren (Quadrello et al 2005). The two other studies (from Switzerland and Germany) focus on the adult child-elderly parent care relationship, mainly (Schwarz and Trommsdorff 2005) or partially (Perrig-Chiello and Ho¨pflinger 2005), from a developmental psychological perspective, using concepts as attachment and filial maturity.…”

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Parent care: the core component of intergenerational relationships in middle and late adulthood

Marcoen

2005

Eur J Ageing

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Intergenerational relationships essentially imply the exchange of resources between younger and older persons in the extended family and the society as a whole. From a gerontological perspective, giving help to elderly parents and grandparents, and receiving help from adult (grand)children, typify the central phenomenon of the intergenerational exchange in middle and late adulthood. From a comprehensive life-span developmental perspective, the younger as well as the older adults may be recipients, respectively, providers of intergenerational support. Exchange of support in adult-elderly parent dyads, or between younger and older generations in general, basically implies bi-directionality and reciprocity. This is nicely clarified by the five papers, in this special section, presenting the results of excellent sociological and psychological investigations of different aspects, societal contexts and determinants of the intergenerational transfers, solidarity and support in European families and countries.Three studies are cross-national in nature. Two of them study intergenerational transfers and intergenerational solidarity, respectively (Attias-Donfut et al. 2005;Daatland and Lowenstein 2005). These articles contribute to the formation of a multifaceted view on parent care and elder care in a number of European countries. In what follows, I reflect on three comprehensive sets of variables constituting, respectively, determining parent care in adult children, and care for the elderly in ageing societies: (1) what is given or received: transfers, assistance, help and care, (2) caregiver(s) and care-receiver(s) characteristics, and (3) context variables. Intergenerational transfers: kinds and measuresIntergenerational transfers, solidarity and help (assistance/support) are the concepts used to indicate the flow of giving and receiving resources within the extended family and the society as a whole. Intergenerational transfer is the most generic term, generally used in economic and sociological research. Intergenerational solidarity is frequently used in sociological research and the terms help, support and assistance primarily figure in psychological research. Attias-Donfut et al. (2005) focus on transfers. They contrast timerelated transfers outside the household with financial transfers inside or outside the household. This dichotomy proved to be useful in view of a better understanding of the determinants of the intergenerational transfers in relation to demographic variables in ten European countries. Daatland and Lowenstein (2005) focus on intergenerational family solidarity in urban populations of five countries with diverse family cultures (more individualistic versus more collectivistic)

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Parent care: the core component of intergenerational relationships in middle and late adulthood

Marcoen

2005

Eur J Ageing

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“…Adolescents from cultural contexts promoting individualistic as compared to interdependent self-and worldviews prefer less close family relationships. This may affect their willingness to support aging parents or which kind of support (financial, instrumental, or emotiona l support) they would provide (Schwarz & Trommsdorff, 2005). Further, parentadolescent relationships in wealthy modern societies (with higher Human Development Index scores) are more characterized by conflict .…”

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Cultural Roots of Values, Morals, and Religious Orientations in Adolescent Development

Trommsdorff

2015

The Oxford Handbook of Human Development and Culture

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Values, morals, and religious beliefs are organizing factors in the development of self-and worldviews. These factors are assumed to be a driving force in adolescents' age ntic regulation of development, which is embedded in the cultural context and influenced by universal and culturally specific processes. Adolescents regulate their individual development by integrating values, morals, an d religious purpose in line with their self-and worldviews to achieve an optimal cultural fit. First, the relations among culture, self-views, and worldviews in adolescent development are discussed . Second, selected culture-informed studies on values, morals, and religious purpose as part of self-and worldviews are presented. Third, the focus is on the developmental conditions relating these aspects. In the conclusion, a model bridging the lens of culture and the lens of adolescent development is suggested, specifying some psychologically relevant factors in this process.Key Words: culture, values, moral, religion, adolescent development, self-view, worldview, autonomy, relatedness But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shall love him as thyself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.- (Leviticus 19:32) In our studies of Japanese and German adolescents' experiencing parental influence attempts (e.g., giving orders or instructions, objecting or disapproving of an activity) , Mary and John felt rather rejected or at least not supported by their parents (like most German respondents). By contrast, Yukiko andAkira (like most Japanese respondents) felt supported in cases of parental influence a~ternpts. Different from their German peers, ~ ey felt rejected or deprived of parental supportIn cases of no apparent parental influence (control ~~ ~onitoring). German and Japanese adolescents 1 Vlously experience and evaluate seemingly simiParenting differently (Trommsdorff & lwawaki, 1989). The question is whether and how the respective subjective experiences are associated with the prevailing cultural values of autonomy and relatedness or with independence and interdependence. Is parental control experienced as threatening adolescents' autonomy in a context where independence is preferred? And is it experienced as fostering interdependence in a context where independence is less valued?In another study, we were interested in adolescents' emotional and behavioral reactions when experiencing a frustrating or disappointing situation (e.g., vignettes describing a peer who openly criticizes the student for a bad performance or making the student stumble and nearly fa ll down). In this situation, Lisa (like most German adolescents) reacted with anger and frustration, explaining the peer's behavior as motivated by aggressive intentions; also, she was ready to retaliate. In contrast, Japanese or Balinese adolescents, like Keiko or Sri, Konstanzer Online-Publikations-System (KOPS) URL: http://nbn-resolving. de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-0-285917 Erschienen in: The Oxford handbook o...

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Kulturvergleich von Beziehungsqualität in Mehrgenerationenfamilien aus psychologischer Sicht1

Trommsdorff

Albert

2009

Generationen

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Aufgrund zunehmender Lebenserwartung gewinnen Generationenbeziehungen mehr und mehr an Bedeutung, und zwar unter soziologiseher aber aueh psyehologischer Perspektive. Die Aktualität des Themas hängt mit Problemen alternder Gesellsehaften zusammen. Die theoretische und sozialpolitische Bedeutung von Generationenbeziehungen hat Kohli schon früh antizipiert. Kohli und seine Schüler (Kohli 2004, 2005, KohlilKünemund 2003) haben mit ihren Studien, vor allem dem einflussreichen Alters-Survey, die empirischen Grundlagen rur eine differenzierte Analyse von Generationenbeziehungen in Deutschland gelegt. Alternde Gesellschaften werden von einigen Forschern als ökonomische und sozialpolitische Belastung gesehen; sie lassen sich aber auch als Chancen ftir den Einzelnen sowie ftir Gesellschaften sehen. Am Beispiel der Generationenbeziehungen und ihrem Wandel in postmodernen westlichen Gesellschaften ist häufig die Auflösung der Familienbeziehung und die Vereinzelung insbesondere alternder Menschen diskutiert worden. Andere Autoren betonen hingegen die Teilhabe und Mitwirkung von Personen aller Altersgruppen an dem gesellschaftlichen Wandel und die Chance, in Generationenbeziehungen so zu investieren, dass gesellschaftliche Integration und Solidarität gefördert werden. Weiterhin werden ein starker Familienzusammenhalt und die integrierende Wirkung von familialen intergenerationalen Beziehungen betont (Bengtson 2001). Damit sind sowohl soziologische als auch psychologische Implikationen gegeben. Die Bedeutung von Generationenbeziehungen im Zusammenhang mit soziodemografischen Veränderungen wird jedoch in der Psychologie kaum untersucht. Soziostrukturelle und familientheoretische Aspekte von Generationenbeziehungen sind in der psychologischen Forschung kein Thema. Schon aus methodologischen Gründen ist es problematisch, die Aggregat-Die vorliegende Studie ist Teil des von der DFG finanzierten Projektes "Value of Chi/dren

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The relation between attachment and intergenerational support

Cited by 29 publications

References 35 publications

Parent care: the core component of intergenerational relationships in middle and late adulthood

Parent care: the core component of intergenerational relationships in middle and late adulthood

Cultural Roots of Values, Morals, and Religious Orientations in Adolescent Development

Kulturvergleich von Beziehungsqualität in Mehrgenerationenfamilien aus psychologischer Sicht1

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