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NORMATIVE OBLIGATIONS AND PARENTAL CARE IN SOCIAL CONTEXT
by
Daphna Gans
________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(GERONTOLOGY)
May 2007
Copyright 2007 Daphna Gans
Object Description
| Title | Normative obligations and parental care in social context |
| Author | Gans, Daphna |
| Author email | dgans@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Gerontology |
| School | Leonard Davis School of Gerontology |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-02-16 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-04-05 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Silverstein, Merril |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Bengtson, Vern Crimmins, Eileen Biblarz, Tim |
| Abstract | This dissertation aimed to explain how the various contexts of family and generation membership, religious affiliation and religiosity, and historical period, shape the degree to which adult children feel obligated to, and actually support, their aging parents. More specifically, the objectives were: (1) to examine change across the lifespan in the strength with which individuals feel adult children should be committed to parental care; (2) to examine how parents influence the amount of support they will receive in old age from their adult children; (3) to examine patterns of congruence or discrepancy between filial obligation to parental care and actual filial behavior of parental care; and (4) to investigate the role of religiosity in predicting such patterns. Analyses were performed using data from the USC Longitudinal Study of Generations (LSOG) -- a multi-wave multi-level four generation study. Multi-level growth curve analysis from the first study (N = 4,527 time-varying observations over four time points of 1,627 individuals from 333 families) showed that filial norms are malleable and change over the adult lifespan. Filial norms peak at midlife and weaken in old age, especially after the death of both parents, when generational succession takes place. Structural equation models from the second study (N = 379 mother-child dyads) demonstrated that parents might shape their children's supportive behavior through various mechanisms including strong emotional bonds, demonstration of the desired caring behavior earlier in life, and exchange mechanisms. Latent class analyses in the third study (N = 475) demonstrated that a discrepant pattern of dissonant individuals--reporting strong obligations yet low actual levels of support -- was most prevalent (52%).; The remaining subjects divide equally into two opposing types of congruent patterns: the uninvolved -- those reporting weak norms and low levels of care, and the committed supporters -- those reporting strong commitment and high levels of support. Multinomial regressions analyses showed that non-religious adult children were almost three times more likely to be non committed to, and uninvolved in, parental care. Taken together, this dissertation demonstrated that intergenerational processes such as commitment to parental care and actual care should be studied within micro-and macro-level contexts over time. |
| Keyword | intergenerational relations; filial norms |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m352 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Gans, Daphna |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Gans-20070405 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume29/etd-Gans-20070405.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | NORMATIVE OBLIGATIONS AND PARENTAL CARE IN SOCIAL CONTEXT by Daphna Gans ________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (GERONTOLOGY) May 2007 Copyright 2007 Daphna Gans |
