Solidarity, conflict, and ambivalence: Complementary or competing perspectives on intergenerational relationships?

By V. Bengtson, Roseann Giarrusso, J. Beth Mabry, M. Silverstein. 2002

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Parenthood, Childlessness, and Well-Being: A Life Course Perspective (2010, background): “Bengtson et al.). Connidis and McMullin (2002) emphasize the structural roots of ambivalence and the tension between structural expectations and demands around parenting.”
Social support, social strain, loneliness, and well-being among older adults (2014, background): “Social support and social strain represent unique dimensions of social relationships (Bengtson et al., 2002). One would expect that social support and social strain are complementary, so that high levels of one imply low levels of the other; however, relationships can paradoxically embrace high supp”
Ambivalence in Mother-Adult Child Relations: A Dyadic Analysis (2006, background): “This exchange has generated greater interest in the concept and its application (Bengtson et al. 2002; Connidis and McMullin 2002a, 2002b; Curran 2002; Lüscher 2002).”
Financial support and practical help between older parents and their middle-aged children in Europe (2010, background): “Bengtson and colleagues (Bengtson and Roberts 1991 ; Bengtson et al. 2002) identified six dimensions, namely associational, affectual, consensual, functional, normative and structural solidarity, all of which indicate different aspects of intergenerational relations and exchange.”