Westat, Rockville, MD, USA; Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Demography. 2023 Apr 1;60(2):461-492. doi: 10.1215/00703370-10571923.
Many U.S. parents share a household with an adult child in later life. However, the reasons parents and adult children coreside may vary over time and across family race/ethnicity, shaping relationships with parents' mental health. Using the Health and Retirement Study, this study investigates the determinants and mental health correlates of coresidence with adult children from 1998 to 2018 among White, Black, and Hispanic parents under age 65 and aged 65+. Findings show that the predictors of coresidence shifted with increasing odds that parents lived with an adult child, and several varied by parents' age group and race/ethnicity. Compared with White parents, Black and Hispanic parents were more likely to live with adult children, especially at older ages, and to indicate that they helped their children with household finances or functional limitations. Living with adult children was associated with higher depressive symptoms among White parents, and mental health was negatively related to living with adult children who were not working or were helping parents with functional limitations. The findings highlight increasing diversity among adult child-coresident parents and underscore persistent differences in the predictors and meaning of coresidence with adult children across race/ethnicity.
许多美国家长在晚年与成年子女同住一个家庭。然而，父母和成年子女共同居住的原因可能会随时间和家庭种族/民族的不同而变化，从而影响与父母心理健康的关系。本研究使用健康与退休研究（Health and Retirement Study），调查了从 1998 年到 2018 年，65 岁以下和 65 岁及以上的白种人、黑人和西班牙裔父母与成年子女共同居住的决定因素及其与心理健康的关系。研究结果表明，共同居住的预测因素随着父母与成年子女共同居住的可能性增加而发生变化，而且其中一些因素因父母的年龄组和种族/民族而异。与白人父母相比，黑人和西班牙裔父母更有可能与成年子女共同居住，尤其是在年龄较大时，并且更有可能表示他们帮助子女处理家庭财务或功能限制。与成年子女共同居住与白人父母的抑郁症状较高有关，心理健康与没有工作或帮助父母处理功能限制的成年子女共同居住呈负相关。研究结果突出了成年子女共同居住父母的多样性日益增加，并强调了不同种族/民族之间共同居住的预测因素和意义仍存在持续差异。
