Aging Parents' Daily Support Exchanges With Adult Children Suffering Problems.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

When adult children incur life problems (e.g., divorce, job loss, health problems), aging parents generally report providing more frequent support and experiencing poorer well-being. Yet, it is unclear how adult children's problems may influence aging parents' daily support exchanges with these children or the parents' daily mood.

Methods

Aging parents from the Family Exchanges Study Wave 2 (N = 207, Mage = 79.86) reported providing and receiving emotional support, practical support, and advice from each adult child each day for 7 days. Parents also rated daily positive and negative mood.

Results

Multilevel models showed that aging parents were more likely to provide emotional and practical support to adult children incurring life problems than children not

SUBMITTER: Huo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6377028 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature