Do older parents’ assistance needs deter parent-child geographic divergence in Norway?

The Effect of Parent-Child Geographic Proximity on Widowed Parents’ Psychological Adjustment and Social Integration

The authors examine the ways that parent-child geographic proximity affects widowed older parents’ psychological well-being and social integration. Analyses are based on the Changing Lives of Older Couples (CLOC) study, a prospective study of 1,532 married individuals aged 65 and older. Compared with those who live more than one hour away from a child, widowed older adults who live with or live...

The relationship between parent-child inventory and adolescent’s depression in predicting compulsive obsession’s severity by parents

Objective: The goal of current study is assessing the role of the structure of  parent-child relationship in predicting the compulsive obsession’s severity of adolescent’s  by compulsive obsession in Ardabil province. Method: The research design is descriptive in the form of correlation and prediction.the research sample included 84 adolescents by OCD referring to Ardabil’s clinics in 1394 who ...

Parent and child physical activity and sedentary time: Do active parents foster active children?

BACKGROUND Physical activity has many positive effects on children's health while TV viewing has been associated with adverse health outcomes. Many children do not meet physical activity recommendations and exceed TV viewing guidelines. Parents are likely to be an important influence on their children's behaviour. There is an absence of information about the associations between parents' and ch...

Children’s Geographic Proximity and Older Parents’ Depressive Symptoms in China

Objective: This study examined the association between children's proximity and older parents' depressive symptoms, and whether living with grandchildren modified this association. Method: Study sample was from the 2011 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (N = 5,261). Elders' depressive symptoms were measured using the 10-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. Childr...

Do Alliances Really Deter?