TY - JOUR
T1 - Family financial and household support exchange between generations
T2 - a survey of chinese rural elderly
AU - Shi, Leiyu
N1 - Funding Information:
'This article was supported in part by Grant # HS 06114 from the National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment. Assistance from the China Ministry of Civil Affairs and the University of California Institute of East Asian Studies, in particular Joyce Kallgren, is deeply appreciated. Constructive suggestions by the anonymous reviewers are graciously acknowledged. However, all errors found are purely the responsibility of the author. •'University of South Carolina, Columbia. Address correspondence to 4427 Blossom Street, Apt. H8, Columbia, SC 29205.
PY - 1993/8
Y1 - 1993/8
N2 - This study examines the pattern of social support exchange between Chinese elderly and their adult children, based on a 1989 rural Chinese household survey. Following social exchange theory, we found reciprocity in household support but not in financial support. Elderly with greater resource capacities (i.e., health, income, education, and social network) were more likely to provide than receive assistance, whereas those with fewer resources had the opposite patterns. The exchange of support was more likely to be related to affective and nonfinancial instrumental support than financial instrumental support. Because only 42% of elderly with one or two children were living with their children, a formal pension and elderly care system is needed to complement the informal support system.
AB - This study examines the pattern of social support exchange between Chinese elderly and their adult children, based on a 1989 rural Chinese household survey. Following social exchange theory, we found reciprocity in household support but not in financial support. Elderly with greater resource capacities (i.e., health, income, education, and social network) were more likely to provide than receive assistance, whereas those with fewer resources had the opposite patterns. The exchange of support was more likely to be related to affective and nonfinancial instrumental support than financial instrumental support. Because only 42% of elderly with one or two children were living with their children, a formal pension and elderly care system is needed to complement the informal support system.
KW - Chinese elderly
KW - Formal support
KW - Intergenerational care exchange
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U2 - 10.1093/geront/33.4.468
DO - 10.1093/geront/33.4.468
M3 - Article
C2 - 8375675
AN - SCOPUS:0027200853
SN - 0016-9013
VL - 33
SP - 468
EP - 480
JO - Gerontologist
JF - Gerontologist
IS - 4
ER -