Iranian Population Studies

Iranian Population Studies

The Study of adult children’s supports for their parents and the influencing factors in Tehran

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Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Family Studies, National Population Research Institute. E-mai: fateme.modiri@psri.ac.ir
Abstract
Given the socio-economic changes in recent decades and the need to examine intergenerational relationships, this study examines the various dimensions of adult children's support of parents, including instrumental support, emotional support and financial support. The statistical population of this cross sectional survey was men and women aged 18 years old and above in Tehran who had at least one living parent and non-coresident. A thousand men and women were selected by multi-stage clustering sampling from 30 districts. The findings have shown that adult children's support with their parents was not the same in different dimensions, so as emotional support for parents was greater than instrumental support, especially financial support. The factors influencing adult children's support of  their parents are not the same in different dimensions and has been influenced by the socioeconomic characteristics, resources, needs, and barriers in parents and adult children. Instrumental support affected by parental age, living arrangements, adult children's religiosity, child committment, geographical distance; emotional support affected by adult children's religiosity, filial obligation, parental conflict, conflict with parents; financial support affected by the age of the parents, the welfare of adult children, child commitment,  conflict with parents, geographical distance. These findings confirm the theories of altruism, intergenerational and contingent solidarity.
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این مقاله مستخرج از طرح پژوهشی با عنوان «بررسی روابط فرزندان بزرگسال با والدین: تماس، حمایت و تعهد» می‌باشد که در سال 1398 با حمایت مالی مؤسسه تحقیقات جمعیت کشور انجام شده است. 

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  • Receive Date 13 June 2020
  • Revise Date 14 December 2020
  • Accept Date 13 January 2021
  • Publish Date 21 November 2020