Jeon Sesong
Major in Child & Family Studies, School of Child Studies, College of Human Ecology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea.
Healthcare (Basel). 2023 Jun 27;11(13):1865. doi: 10.3390/healthcare11131865.
Despite the understanding that differentiation is a lifelong process crucial for psychological adaptation, there is limited knowledge regarding how parent-child differentiation in adulthood is associated with the psychological well-being of both parents and adult children. Furthermore, empirical research has yielded inconclusive results regarding whether the parental status of adult children influences the parent-child relationship. Consequently, the current study focuses on the moderating effect of adult daughters' parental status on the association between aging mother-adult daughter differentiation and psychological well-being. The study utilized data from 167 pairs of Korean aging mothers and adult daughters to examine two main aspects: (1) the relationship between aging mother-adult daughter differentiation and psychological well-being; and (2) the moderating role of adult daughters' parental status on the relationship between aging mother-adult daughter differentiation and psychological well-being. The findings revealed that both the differentiation of adult daughters and mothers was positively associated with their respective psychological well-being. However, no significant cross-interactional effects of aging mother-adult daughter differentiation on psychological well-being were observed. Notably, there was a positive moderating effect of the adult daughter's parental status on the association between aging mother-adult daughter differentiation and psychological well-being for aging mothers.
尽管人们认识到分化是心理适应的一个至关重要的终身过程，但关于成年期亲子分化如何与父母和成年子女的心理健康相关的知识却很有限。此外，关于成年子女的父母身份是否会影响亲子关系，实证研究得出的结果尚无定论。因此，当前的研究聚焦于成年女儿的父母身份对衰老母亲与成年女儿之间的分化和心理健康之间关联的调节作用。该研究利用了167对韩国衰老母亲和成年女儿的数据，来考察两个主要方面：（1）衰老母亲与成年女儿之间的分化与心理健康之间的关系；（2）成年女儿的父母身份在衰老母亲与成年女儿之间的分化和心理健康之间关系中的调节作用。研究结果显示，成年女儿和母亲的分化都与她们各自的心理健康呈正相关。然而，未观察到衰老母亲与成年女儿之间的分化对心理健康有显著的交叉交互作用。值得注意的是，成年女儿的父母身份对衰老母亲的衰老母亲与成年女儿之间的分化和心理健康之间的关联具有正向调节作用。
