Close To You? How Parent-Adult Child Contact Is Influenced by Family Patterns.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Intergenerational contacts occur in the context of other family relationships. We examine how in-person contacts among parents and all adult children affect each other, focusing on proximity and other predictors to assess whether and how visiting is correlated across adult children.

Methods

We use a modeling approach derived from an adaptation of multilevel models to provide a convenient mechanism by which to write child-specific equations, each with its own set of predictors, and wherein one child's attribute values can be attached to other children's records.

Results

We find that parent-adult child visiting is positively correlated across siblings, but the frequency of visiting within families is not directly reciprocated. Rather, visiting responds to com

SUBMITTER: Deane G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5014244 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature