Intergenerational Religious Participation in Adolescence and Provision of Assistance to Older Mothers.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This investigation examined the association between intergenerational religious activities in adolescence and provision of assistance to older mothers up to 45 years later.

Background

Guided by perspectives of the life course and intergenerational solidarity, this research tested whether children's early religious participation with mothers predicted the amount of assistance children later provided, whether mothers' disability and widowhood served as moderators of this relationship, and whether any such moderation was mediated by emotional closeness, geographic proximity, and eldercare norms.

Method

Data derived from 220 adolescents who participated in the Longitudinal Study of Generations in 1971, and up to four follow-up surveys between 1997 and 2016, yiel

SUBMITTER: Silverstein M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7451961 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature