Lin I-Fen, Wu Hsueh-Sheng
Bowling Green State University.
J Marriage Fam. 2014 Apr 1;76(2):261-271. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12093.
The authors used data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study ( = 5,023) to determine how 3 attributes of intergenerational exchange (content, direction, and recency) are associated with older adults' expected sick care and comfort from their adult children. They found more like-kind associations (expecting same types of support that had been exchanged before) than spillover associations (expecting different types of support than that had been exchanged before). Same patterns of like-kind associations were found for expected sick care and comfort, regardless of the direction and recency of exchange, but expected sick care and comfort had different patterns of spillover associations. Specifically, recent emotional transfer, upward or downward, was related to expected sick care, but only recent upward instrumental transfer was related to expected comfort. This study advances the gerontological literature by elucidating the complex relations between each of the 3 attributes of intergenerational exchange and expected support among older adults.
作者使用了来自威斯康星纵向研究的数据（n = 5023），以确定代际交换的三个属性（内容、方向和近期性）如何与老年人对成年子女提供的医疗护理和慰藉的期望相关联。他们发现，与溢出关联（期望得到与之前交换的不同类型的支持）相比，相似关联（期望得到与之前交换的相同类型的支持）更多。对于预期的医疗护理和慰藉，无论交换的方向和近期性如何，都发现了相似的相似关联模式，但预期的医疗护理和慰藉具有不同的溢出关联模式。具体而言，近期的向上或向下的情感转移与预期的医疗护理相关，但只有近期的向上工具性转移与预期的慰藉相关。这项研究通过阐明代际交换的三个属性与老年人预期支持之间的复杂关系，推进了老年学文献的发展。
