Explaining Mothers' Ambivalence Toward Their Adult Children

By K. Pillemer, J. Suitor. 2002

232 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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In Demography

1. T. Pardo
2. Steven E. Mock
3. J. Sechrist
4. Myra Sabir
5. J. Suitor
6. K. Pillemer
7. P. Dykstra
8. Tetyana Pudrovska

In Sociology and Political Science

1. T. Pardo
2. Steven E. Mock
3. J. Sechrist
4. Myra Sabir
5. J. Suitor
6. K. Pillemer
7. P. Dykstra
8. Tetyana Pudrovska

Citations in the corpus

• The best of ties, the worst of ties: Close, problematic, and ambivalent social relationships (2004, background): “Pillemer and Suitor (2002) studied mothers over the age of 60 and found that older mothers reported greater ambivalence toward offspring than did younger mothers.”
• Capturing the Complexity of Intergenerational Relations: Exploring Ambivalence within Later-Life Families (2007, methodology): “…parents tend to have closer, less conflicted, and more supportive relationships with adult children who share their social structural positions (Kaufman & Uhlenberg, 1998; Pillemer & Suitor, 2002; Umberson, 1992) and values (Pillemer & Suitor, 2002; Suitor & Pillemer, 2006; Welsh & Stewart, 1995).”
• Solidarity and Conflict Between Adult Children and Parents: A Latent Class Analysis (2006, background): “One is to directly assess perceptions of ambivalence by asking respondents to what degree their feelings or attitudes toward the parent or child are mixed ( Pillemer & Suitor, 2002 ).”
• Parenthood, Childlessness, and Well-Being: A Life Course Perspective (2010, background): “Research on middle-aged and older parents has disproportionately focused on heterosexual married couples (Ha, 2008), White adults (Carr, 2004; Pillemer & Suitor, 2002; Pudrovska, 2008), and middle-class families (Pillemer & Suitor).”
• Choosing Daughters: Exploring Why Mothers Favor Adult Daughters over Sons (2006, background): “…focus on similarity of attitudes and values find that these dimensions of similarity are important predictors of parent– child relationship quality (Pillemer and Suitor 2002; Suitor 1987; Welsh and Stew-art 1995); in fact, such similarity is one of the core components of a model of…”