Reciprocity in Intergenerational Support: A Comparison of Chinese and German Adult Daughters-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Reciprocity in Intergenerational Support: A Comparison of Chinese and German Adult Daughters

Published:2009-10-01 Issue:2 Volume:31 Page:234-256
ISSN:0192-513X
Container-title:Journal of Family Issues
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Family Issues

Author:

Schwarz Beate¹,Trommsdorff Gisela²,Gang Zheng ³,Shaohua Shi ³

Affiliation:

1. University of Basel, Switzerland,

2. University of Konstanz, Germany

3. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Abstract

This study investigates how Chinese and German adult daughters evaluate the norm of reciprocity and the unbalanced exchange of support in relation to their aging parents. Women from rural and urban China ( n = 292) and from Germany ( n = 264) have participated in this study. Results show that for the German daughters, differently from rural Chinese daughters, perception of imbalance is strongly related to their intention to support their elderly parents. The results for the urban Chinese daughters are closer to those of the German sample than those of the rural Chinese daughters. The results are discussed in light of theoretical approaches to intergenerational relations taking into account the Confucian concept of filial piety and influences of social change.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0192513X09347991

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