Cargando…
TRANSITION IN FAMILY RELATIONS IN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES: THE CASE OF CHINESE OLDER IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES
Using panel data of 2,604 Chinese older immigrants in Chicago over a two-year period, this study examined continuity and changes in intergenerational relationship patterns and their mental health implications. Latent transition analysis revealed five types of family relations: traditional, modified...
Autores principales: | , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Oxford University Press
2019
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6840034/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.117 |
_version_ | 1783467530121117696 |
---|---|
author | Guo, Man stensland, Meredith Li, Mengting Dong, XinQi |
author_facet | Guo, Man stensland, Meredith Li, Mengting Dong, XinQi |
author_sort | Guo, Man |
collection | PubMed |
description | Using panel data of 2,604 Chinese older immigrants in Chicago over a two-year period, this study examined continuity and changes in intergenerational relationship patterns and their mental health implications. Latent transition analysis revealed five types of family relations: traditional, modified traditional, coresiding-unobligated, independent, and detached. Over the two years, about 43% of the respondents shifted to a different relationship type, with the most common changes being shifting into modified traditional or independent relations, or from detached relations. Controlling for baseline socio-demographic, acculturation, mental health variables, and variables representing life transitions over time, having detached relations was related to greater depressive symptoms in two years and having modified traditional relations was associated with better quality of life at the follow up. The findings revealed heterogeneity and fluidity of intergenerational relations among older immigrant populations and point to the important role of family relations in their well-being. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-6840034 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2019 |
publisher | Oxford University Press |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-68400342019-11-13 TRANSITION IN FAMILY RELATIONS IN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES: THE CASE OF CHINESE OLDER IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES Guo, Man stensland, Meredith Li, Mengting Dong, XinQi Innov Aging Session 615 (Symposium) Using panel data of 2,604 Chinese older immigrants in Chicago over a two-year period, this study examined continuity and changes in intergenerational relationship patterns and their mental health implications. Latent transition analysis revealed five types of family relations: traditional, modified traditional, coresiding-unobligated, independent, and detached. Over the two years, about 43% of the respondents shifted to a different relationship type, with the most common changes being shifting into modified traditional or independent relations, or from detached relations. Controlling for baseline socio-demographic, acculturation, mental health variables, and variables representing life transitions over time, having detached relations was related to greater depressive symptoms in two years and having modified traditional relations was associated with better quality of life at the follow up. The findings revealed heterogeneity and fluidity of intergenerational relations among older immigrant populations and point to the important role of family relations in their well-being. Oxford University Press 2019-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6840034/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.117 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Session 615 (Symposium) Guo, Man stensland, Meredith Li, Mengting Dong, XinQi TRANSITION IN FAMILY RELATIONS IN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES: THE CASE OF CHINESE OLDER IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES |
title | TRANSITION IN FAMILY RELATIONS IN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES: THE CASE OF CHINESE OLDER IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES |
title_full | TRANSITION IN FAMILY RELATIONS IN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES: THE CASE OF CHINESE OLDER IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES |
title_fullStr | TRANSITION IN FAMILY RELATIONS IN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES: THE CASE OF CHINESE OLDER IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES |
title_full_unstemmed | TRANSITION IN FAMILY RELATIONS IN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES: THE CASE OF CHINESE OLDER IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES |
title_short | TRANSITION IN FAMILY RELATIONS IN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES: THE CASE OF CHINESE OLDER IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES |
title_sort | transition in family relations in immigrant families: the case of chinese older immigrants in the united states |
topic | Session 615 (Symposium) |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6840034/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.117 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT guoman transitioninfamilyrelationsinimmigrantfamiliesthecaseofchineseolderimmigrantsintheunitedstates AT stenslandmeredith transitioninfamilyrelationsinimmigrantfamiliesthecaseofchineseolderimmigrantsintheunitedstates AT limengting transitioninfamilyrelationsinimmigrantfamiliesthecaseofchineseolderimmigrantsintheunitedstates AT dongxinqi transitioninfamilyrelationsinimmigrantfamiliesthecaseofchineseolderimmigrantsintheunitedstates |