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Ambivalence among intergenerational relationships in old age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

S. Von Humboldt ,
A. Costa  and
S. Silva
S. Von Humboldt*
Affiliation:
William James Center For Research, ISPA-Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal
A. Costa
Affiliation:
Ispa – Instituto Universitário, ISPA – Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal
S. Silva
Affiliation:
Ispa – Instituto Universitário, ISPA – Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

This study focuses on ambivalence among intergenerational relationships in old age.

Objectives

This study aims to analyze the perspectives of intergenerational relationships between older adults and adult children. For this purpose, a qualitative research was carried out, which analyzes these relations at a cross-national level.

Methods

Four hundred and twenty four older participants aged 65-97 years, were interviewed. Participants were of three different nationalities and lived in the community. All the interviews went through the process of verbatim transcription and subsequent content analysis.

Results

Two dimensions of generational ambivalence were revealed from the study; support and the conflict dimensions. Findings of content analysis produced six themes, which represent intergenerational relations between older adults and adult children: older adults-adult children interaction quality; family integration; care and support; definition of limits; distance and alienation; and communication difficulties.

Conclusions

This study highlighted the diversity of experiences in old age, in relation to intergenerational relationships and underlined the conflicting expectations from older adults in relation to their adult children.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

older adultsambivalenceAdult childrenintergenerational relationships
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S743 - S744
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