Caring for the Elderly Parents: The Role of Daughters

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211220.056How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Elderly Care; Daughters’ Role; Gender Difference; Family Support

Abstract

With the development of a modern social economy and culture in China, women’s role in elderly care has become more important. However, limited amount of research has been completed on how exactly women are contributing to elderly care in a family. In order to further the knowledge of elderly care and to better understand Chinese daughters’ role in providing elderly care to parents, this study utilized a cross-sectional survey methodology with a sample of 302 to examine how adult daughters support their elderly parents. The questionnaire data was input into SPSS and analyzed with t-tests and correlation analysis. The result shows that: (1) Compared to sons, daughters provide more emotional support in terms of listening to parents’ thoughts and talking to parents about life. (2) Daughter’s age is positively correlated with the support they give to parents. (3) Daughter’s distance from parents is negatively correlated with the support they give to parents.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Songze Chu
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Caring for the Elderly Parents: The Role of Daughters
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 324
EP  - 330
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.056
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.056
ID  - Chu2021
ER  -