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Peer reviewedAllen, Katherine R.; Walker, Alexis J. – Family Relations, 1992
Applied Ruddick's (1989) theory of attentive love to interview data from 29 adult daughters caring for aging mothers. Found support for the theory that adult daughters preserve their aging mothers' lives, foster their growth, and try to help their mothers remain acceptable to society. Findings have implications for family and gerontological…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Daughters, Family Caregivers, Feminism
Peer reviewedPratt, Clara C.; And Others – Family Relations, 1993
Identified influence strategies used by elderly care-receiving mothers and their caregiving daughters, including positive strategies, overt and covert negative strategies, and option seeking. Findings from 64 mother-daughter pairs revealed that mother's health, level of dependency, and residence were not related to most strategy use. Negative…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Daughters, Family Caregivers, Influences
Peer reviewedWalker, Alexis J.; And Others – Family Relations, 1992
Interviewed 174 care-receiving mothers and their caregiving daughters concerning contributions of care receivers. Majority of respondents perceived that daughters received aid from mothers in return for help given. Mothers who reported giving advice and money had better health whereas mothers who reported giving information were more dependent…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Daughters, Family Caregivers, Mothers
Peer reviewedWalker, Alexis J.; And Others – Family Relations, 1991
Compared pairs (n=174) of elderly mothers' and their caregiving daughters' perceptions of aid given to the mothers with actual caregiving activities. Results indicated nearly half of the mothers and daughters were accurate in their perceptions of aid given to the mothers; when mothers' perception of aid was inaccurate, mothers overestimated rather…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Attitudes, Daughters, Family Caregivers
Peer reviewedWalker, Alexis J.; And Others – Family Relations, 1990
Results from 174 elderly dependent mothers and their caregiving daughters revealed that most believed daughters were caregiving primarily for discretionary rather than obligatory reasons. Women who felt their daughters' motives were not highly discretionary reported lower intimacy in their relationships and said they had received care for more…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Daughters, Family Caregivers, Intimacy
Peer reviewedPratt, Clara C.; And Others – Family Relations, 1992
Examined bereavement among 38 daughters who were caregivers to their elderly mothers. Comparing bereavement feelings at two months to feelings at 6 months following mother's death, daughters reported decreases in grief resolution behavior and feelings of emotional shock, anger, and helplessness. Comparison to elderly widows indicated similarities…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Bereavement, Daughters, Death
Direct linkRaschick, Michael; Ingersoll-Dayton, Berit – Family Relations, 2004
Using a social exchange perspective and data from a national sample of 978 spouse and child caregivers of older family members, this study assessed the association between caregiver relationship and gender and the costs and rewards of caregiving. We also evaluated whether relationship and gender moderate the effects of helpfulness on caregiver…
Descriptors: Rewards, Daughters, Costs, Caregivers
