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Sense of Relationship Entitlement of Aging Parents Toward Their Offspring (SRE-ao)—A New Concept and Measurement Tool

Our sense of entitlement influences our interactions and attitudes in a range of specific relational contexts, one of them being aging parents’ relationships with their adult children. This study aimed to examine the factor structure of the Sense of Relational Entitlement—aging parents toward their...

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Autores principales: Tolmacz, Rami, Lev-Ari, Lilac, Bachner-Melman, Rachel, Palgi, Yuval, Bodner, Ehud, Feldman, Darya, Chakir, Ron, Ben-David, Boaz
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9204095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35719526
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.885620
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author Tolmacz, Rami
Lev-Ari, Lilac
Bachner-Melman, Rachel
Palgi, Yuval
Bodner, Ehud
Feldman, Darya
Chakir, Ron
Ben-David, Boaz
author_facet Tolmacz, Rami
Lev-Ari, Lilac
Bachner-Melman, Rachel
Palgi, Yuval
Bodner, Ehud
Feldman, Darya
Chakir, Ron
Ben-David, Boaz
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description Our sense of entitlement influences our interactions and attitudes in a range of specific relational contexts, one of them being aging parents’ relationships with their adult children. This study aimed to examine the factor structure of the Sense of Relational Entitlement—aging parents toward their offspring (SRE-ao), an 11-item questionnaire that assesses aging people’s sense of relational entitlement toward their children, and examine the associations of its subscales with related personality and mental health constructs. One thousand and six participants (24.6% men), aged 65–99, with at least one child, completed the SRE-ao, Brief Symptom Inventory, Loneliness Scale, and General Belongingness scale. The SRE-ao demonstrated good construct structure using confirmatory factor analysis. Both SRE-ao subscales (restricted and inflated sense of entitlement) were significantly and positively associated with anxiety, depression, somatization and sense of loneliness and negatively with sense of belonging. When all variables were entered into a regression model, age, anxiety, and low sense of belonging, but not sense of loneliness, positively predicted both restricted and inflated sense of entitlement. Somatization negatively predicted inflated sense of entitlement. The SRE-ao is a reliable and valid scale that can be used in clinical practice and research to enhance our understanding of parent–child relationships throughout the lifespan.
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spelling pubmed-92040952022-06-18 Sense of Relationship Entitlement of Aging Parents Toward Their Offspring (SRE-ao)—A New Concept and Measurement Tool Tolmacz, Rami Lev-Ari, Lilac Bachner-Melman, Rachel Palgi, Yuval Bodner, Ehud Feldman, Darya Chakir, Ron Ben-David, Boaz Front Psychol Psychology Our sense of entitlement influences our interactions and attitudes in a range of specific relational contexts, one of them being aging parents’ relationships with their adult children. This study aimed to examine the factor structure of the Sense of Relational Entitlement—aging parents toward their offspring (SRE-ao), an 11-item questionnaire that assesses aging people’s sense of relational entitlement toward their children, and examine the associations of its subscales with related personality and mental health constructs. One thousand and six participants (24.6% men), aged 65–99, with at least one child, completed the SRE-ao, Brief Symptom Inventory, Loneliness Scale, and General Belongingness scale. The SRE-ao demonstrated good construct structure using confirmatory factor analysis. Both SRE-ao subscales (restricted and inflated sense of entitlement) were significantly and positively associated with anxiety, depression, somatization and sense of loneliness and negatively with sense of belonging. When all variables were entered into a regression model, age, anxiety, and low sense of belonging, but not sense of loneliness, positively predicted both restricted and inflated sense of entitlement. Somatization negatively predicted inflated sense of entitlement. The SRE-ao is a reliable and valid scale that can be used in clinical practice and research to enhance our understanding of parent–child relationships throughout the lifespan. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9204095/ /pubmed/35719526 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.885620 Text en Copyright © 2022 Tolmacz, Lev-Ari, Bachner-Melman, Palgi, Bodner, Feldman, Chakir and Ben-David. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Lev-Ari, Lilac
Bachner-Melman, Rachel
Palgi, Yuval
Bodner, Ehud
Feldman, Darya
Chakir, Ron
Ben-David, Boaz
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title_sort sense of relationship entitlement of aging parents toward their offspring (sre-ao)—a new concept and measurement tool
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9204095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35719526
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.885620
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