Abstract
Children’s obligation to support their elderly parents has a deep root in Thailand and is suspected to deteriorate due to population aging and socio-economic pressure along with technological progress. The study examined (1) types of elderly parent-adult child relationship, (2) factors influencing types of relationship, and (3) impacts of types of relationship on well-being of the elderly parents.
Methods: The data are from the fourth wave (2022) of the longitudinal survey on Health, Aging, and Retirement in Thailand (HART). Eight indicators from the manifest and latent solidarities were selected to classify the types of elderly parent-child relationship using the latent class analysis (LCA). The multinomial logistic regression was performed to analyze the influence of demographic and socio-economic characteristics on the types. Finally, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used to examine the impacts of types on well-being of elderly parents.
Results: Four types of elderly parent-child relationship were classified as tight-knit, distant supportive, sociable, and detached. Using detached type as the reference category, the significant determinants of the tight-knit class were age, gender, and economic activity; while those for the distant supportive class were age and number of living children, and for the sociable type, the number of living children. The study found an overall significant association between types of relationship and well-being. To improve the well-being of elderly parents in the all age-groups and types, family policy on psychological health, especially, of the 70-79 age-group in the detached type should be focused.
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Dararatt Anantanasuwong, National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand
Duanpen Theerawanviwat, National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand
Pachitjanut Siripanich, National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand
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Conference: AGen2024
Stream: Aging and Gerontology
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Anantanasuwong D., Theerawanviwat D., & Siripanich P. (2024) Elderly Parent-Child Relationship in Thailand: Types, Determinants, and Impacts ISSN: 2432-4183 The Asian Conference on Aging & Gerontology 2024: Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2432-4183.2024.9
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2432-4183.2024.9
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