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The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 62:P165-P170 (2007)
© 2007 The Gerontological Society of America


RESEARCH ARTICLE

Parental Practices and Willingness to Ask for Children's Help Later in Life

Carmi Schooler, Andrew J. Revell and Leslie J. Caplan

Section on Socio-Environmental Studies, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Address correspondence to Carmi Schooler, Ph.D., Section on Socio-Environmental Studies, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, 6101 Executive Boulevard, Suite 360, Room 362, MSC 8408, Bethesda, MD 20892-8408. E-mail: carmi.schooler{at}nih.gov

We examine how parents' relationships with their 13- to 25-year-old offspring affect the parents' willingness to ask them for help with financial and personal problems 20 years later. Husbands and wives were interviewed in 1974 and 1994; a child was interviewed in 1974. We used two aspects of parental style, responsiveness and restrictive dominance, to predict parents' willingness to request help from a child 20 years later. Structural equation modeling analyses revealed the following: (a) mothers' willingness to ask an adult child for help with a personal problem was increased by higher levels of responsiveness; (b) mothers' willingness to ask for financial help was increased by responsive and decreased by restrictive-dominant maternal behavior; and (c) neither responsive nor restrictive-dominant paternal behavior affected fathers' later willingness to ask an adult child for help of either kind.







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