Emotional support and intergenerational solidarity

Šadl, Zdenka (author), Hlebec, Valentina (author)

Throughout life receiving and offering emotional support is an important dimension in the relations between parents and children. Receiving emotional support from adult children is especially important for the aging parents, as it is - according to domestic and foreign research on family support systems -related to greater affective wellbeing, the feeling of satisfaction with life and the health of the parents. In this paper we are interested in the emotional support provided through intergenerational ties in Slovenia. We have observed the share of family intergenerational ties (within all ties that offer emotional support) and the demographic variables that influence the extent to which the family members rely on intergenerational family ties for their emotional support. Our data shows that the share of family intergenerational ties is significantly influenced by age, gender, marital status and the composition of the household. The feeling of the importance of ties is not linked to the share of intergenerational ties in an emotional network, and individuals who are likely to irritate the respondents are less likely to be a part of an emotional network.

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2010
• Number of pages: Str. 1150-1170
• Numbering: Letn. 47, št. 6
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-23156
• UDC: 316.4.051.6
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 30039645
• Publication date in RUL: 11.07.2014

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian

Abstract

Prejemanje in dajanje emocionalne opore je pomembna dimenzija odnosov med starši in otroci skozi celoten življenjski cikel. Prejemanje emocionalne opore, ki jo nudijo odrasli otroci je posebej pomembna za starajoče starše, saj je, po ugotovitvah tujih in domačih raziskav družinskih podpornih sistemov, povezana s povečanim dobrim počutjem, z zadovoljstvom z življenjem in zdravjem staršev. V prispevku nas zanima emocionalna opora, ki jo zagotavljajo družinske medgeneracijske vezi v Sloveniji. Opazovali bomo, kolikšen je odstotek družinskih medgeneracijskih vezi med vsemi vezmi, ki dajejo emocionalno oporo posameznikom in katere demografske spremenljivke vplivajo na to, koliko se družinski člani pri emocionalni opori opirajo na medgeneracijske družinske vezi. Naši podatki kažejo, da na odstotek družinskih medgeneracijskih vezi značilno vplivajo starost, spol, zakonski stan in sestava gospodinjstva. Občutenje pomembnosti vezi ni povezano z odstotkom medgeneracijskih vezi v emocionalnem omrežju, posamezniki, ki anketirance spravljajo v slabo voljo pa so manj verjetno del tega omrežja.