Filial Responsibility Expectations Among Adult Child-Older Parent Pairs

Filial responsibility expectations among adult child-older parent pairs.

We investigated filial responsibility consensus in a random sample of 144 elderly parent-adult child pairs. Most respondents interpreted the filial role as including a great deal of emotional support and discussion of important matters and available resources. Both generations perceived living close by and writing letters to parents on a weekly basis as less important. Parents, compared to thei...

Filial belief and parent-child conflict.

T his study examines the relation between filial belief and the frequency, origins, and solutions to parent– child conflict using an indigenous Chinese perspective. The Dual Filial Piety model is employed to categorize the four types of filial belief: nonfilial, authoritarian, reciprocal, and absolute. Questionnaires were completed by 773 junior and senior high school students from around Taiwa...

Measuring Older Adults' Filial Responsibility Expectations: Exploring the Application of a Vignette

Filial Therapy: a Comparison of Child-parent Relationship Therapy and Parent-child Interaction Therapy

Filial therapy, originally developed by Bernard Guerney (1964), is a form of parent child therapy utilizing child-centered skills and limit setting strategies to improve the parent child relationship and to increase positive child behaviors. Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), developed by Sheila Eyberg (1988), is an empirically supported treatment for improving parenting skills and decrea...

Who helps whom in older parent-child families.

While previous research has assumed that older persons who live with adult children do so because of their poverty or disability, some recent evidence suggests that many of these extended households primarily benefit the child. This article attempts to provide a better understanding of the relative contributions of parents and adult children who live together through detailed analysis of data f...