Intergenerational Transmission of Relationship Quality in Later-Life Families.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This article examines the transmission of older women's relationship quality with their mothers and fathers to their relationship quality with their own adult children in midlife. We also investigate how the transmission is moderated by the dimension of relationship quality (closeness vs. strain) and the gender of both the older women's parents and their adult children.

Background

Prior research has primarily examined parents' transmission of relationship quality to young children with little attention to whether and when this pattern occurs in later-life families.

Method

We conducted multilevel analyses using data collected from 249 older women and 643 of their adult children as part of the Within-Family Differences Study-I.

Results

We found evidence

SUBMITTER: Hou Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10022701 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature