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Quality of Adult Child-Aging Parent Relationships: A Structural Equations Approach Using Merged Cross-Generational Data

Mack C. Shelley, II

Bing Wall

Iowa State University

In a study of the attachment bond, determinants of the quality of the adult child-aging parent relationship are analyzed from the child's perspective for 180 adult child-aging parent pairs. Structural equation models are estimated for thefull sample andfor parent-child pairs living more than 60 miles apart and within 60 miles of each other. In the full sample, quality of the adult child-elderly parent relationship is enhanced by greater frequency of intergenerational interaction; a stronger sense of filial obligation; adult children who are married, have less education, and are in better health; smaller sibling unit size; only-child status; and parents who are married, older, and are in better health. Different predictors are significant in thefull-sample, near-proximity, andfar-proximity models, but the direction of significant effects is consistent across equations.

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