The best of ties, the worst of ties: Close, problematic, and ambivalent social relationships
By K. Fingerman, E. Hay, Kira S Birditt. 2004
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Subfields: Demography, Health, Sociology and Political Science
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In Health
- J. Holt‐Lunstad
- Bert N. Uchino
- Jessica R. Methot
- P. Dykstra
- Shimul Melwani
- Naomi B Rothman
- R. Gaalen
- Rik Pieters
In Sociology and Political Science
- Jessica R. Methot
- P. Dykstra
- Bert N. Uchino
- Shimul Melwani
- Naomi B Rothman
- R. Gaalen
- Rik Pieters
- L. Heylen
Citations in the corpus
- Capturing the Complexity of Intergenerational Relations: Exploring Ambivalence within Later-Life Families (2007, neutral): “…the quality of parent–child relations, studies must begin to incorporate both positive and negative elements in a single study (Bengtson, Giarrusso, Mabry, & Silverstein, 2002; Connidis & McMullin, 2002; Fingerman, Hay, & Birditt, 2004; L¨uscher & Pillemer, 1998; Willson, Shuey, & Elder, 2003).”
- Solidarity and Conflict Between Adult Children and Parents: A Latent Class Analysis (2006, background): “In line with this view, Fingerman et al. (2004) found that the majority of adult children (56%) experience the ties to their parents as solely close, one third (38%) experience them as ambivalent, and 6% experience them as solely problematic.”
- The Space Between Us: A Social-Functional Emotions View of Ambivalent and Indifferent Workplace Relationships (2017, background): “…individuals report that ambivalent ties frequently define their social networks (e.g., spouse, coworkers, family members, friends), with comparable numbers of positive and ambivalent relationships and more ambivalent than negative relationships (Fingerman et al., 2004; Uchino et al., 2004).”
- The assessment of positivity and negativity in social networks: the reliability and validity of the social relationships index† (2009, background): “Another speculation for the high occurrence of ambivalent ties is that individuals choose to keep these relationships due to normative relationship obligations (e.g., a family member or an old childhood friend; Fingerman et al., 2004; Schuster et al., 1990).”