How Intergenerational Estrangement Matters for Maternal and Adult Children's Health.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We compare maternal and adult child health outcomes across 1) estranged (i.e., no contact, or low contact and low quality), 2) socially positive (i.e., high quality, moderate to high contact), and 3) socially negative (i.e., high contact but low quality) maternal-adult child relationships.

Background

We develop intergenerational resource, crisis, and strain theories to test the link between socially positive, socially negative, and estranged maternal-adult child dynamics and the health of both generations.

Method

Regression models of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79 and NLSY79-CYA) data compare self-rated health and CES-D scores across maternal-adult child relationship types (N = 2,609 mothers; 5,590 children).

Res

SUBMITTER: Reczek R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11759258 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature