Department of Sociology and Center on Aging and the Life Course, 355 Stone Hall, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
Gerontologist. 2013 Jun;53(3):388-96. doi: 10.1093/geront/gns084. Epub 2012 Aug 8.
Theory and research suggest that congruence between individuals' preferences for future care and the patterns of care received will affect well-being. In this article, we explore whether older mothers' psychological well-being was affected by the children they preferred as future caregivers and provide assistance at a later point when the mothers experience illness or injury.
In this article, we use a combination of quantitative and qualitative data collected from 234 older mothers at two points 7 years apart, beginning when the mothers were 65-75 years of age.
Multivariate analyses demonstrated that mothers who received assistance from children whom the mothers did not identify as their preferred future caregivers reported higher depressive symptoms at the second wave; receiving care from children identified as preferred caregivers did not affect well-being. Qualitative data suggested that these patterns occurred because the "alternate" caregivers did not possess the socioemotional attributes of preferred children.
These findings contribute to a growing body of research demonstrating the consequences of violated preferences, particularly when individuals are in need of support in later life.
理论和研究表明，个人对未来护理的偏好与实际接受的护理模式之间的一致性将影响幸福感。本文探讨了年长母亲的心理健康是否受到她们更喜欢的未来照顾者的孩子以及在母亲生病或受伤后提供帮助的模式的影响。
本文使用了从 234 名 65-75 岁的年长母亲在 7 年内两次收集的定量和定性数据的组合。
多变量分析表明，从母亲不认为是未来首选照顾者的孩子那里获得帮助的母亲在第二次随访时报告了更高的抑郁症状；从被认为是首选照顾者的孩子那里获得的照顾并不会影响幸福感。定性数据表明，这些模式的出现是因为“替代”照顾者不具备首选孩子的社会情感属性。
这些发现有助于越来越多的研究证明违反偏好的后果，尤其是当个人在晚年需要支持时。
