In my research, I was generally interested in the topic of coexistence of three (in principle primarily related and consecutive) generations, but I focused on various sub-topics within it, namely the different forms of coexistence, its advantages and disadvantages, as well as its duration and satisfaction with it, conflicts, parenting styles, contacts between the generations, the setting during this way of living, and so on.
In the first part of the thesis, I present the theory, focused on the definitions of family, generations, intergenerational coexistence, then intergenerational ambivalence, which includes the simultaneous presence of both solidarity and conflicts, then I review statistics and research data, and finally I link the topic to different fields of social work – with young people, with the whole family, with the elderly.
The research was quantitative, empirical, descriptive and correlational. The measurement instrument was a structured online questionnaire designed in Arnes 1ka. The sample was a non-random, rather convenience sample, also chosen by the snowball method. The research method was an online survey. At the end, I did a quantitative analysis using statistical methods for most of the collected data. For the two open-type questions, I also carried out a qualitative analysis – open and axial coding.
The second part of the thesis presents the final findings, got mainly with quantitative, but also some qualitative data analysis. The main findings based on the research questions and hypotheses defined at the beginning of the research were that there is a medium strong correlation between the way of living (coexistence) and the age of the respondents; that the majority of the interviewed young people have experience of coexistence with members of the third generation who are related to them on their father's side; that from the third generation to the middle generation, according to the young generation respondents, the democratic parenting style, or elements of it, predominates, that most people identified their location of living during intergenerational coexistence as rural setting; that there was shown a low correlation between the frequency of conflicts and young people's satisfaction with intergenerational coexistence, and that there was a negligible correlation between the number of years of coexistence and young people's satisfaction with intergenerational coexistence.
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