A Family Affair: Family Typologies of Problems and Midlife Well-Being.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Midlife adults are a "pivot" generation, responding to parents' and grown children's problems. Yet, some midlife adults may have families where multiple members suffer sorrows, whereas other midlife adults may have families with few problems. This study examined: (a) typologies of problems across generations and (b) associations between profiles of problems and midlife adults' well-being.

Research design and methods

Midlife adults (N = 633) reported their own, each parent's (n = 868), and grown child's (n = 1,785) physical (e.g., injury, cancer), psychological (e.g., anxiety, addiction), and lifestyle problems (e.g., divorce, job loss), and parents' functional disabilities. Midlife adults reported their own depressive symptoms.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Fingerman KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6215460 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature