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JOURNAL OF FAMILY ISSUES
Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages 380-398Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X06293893
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intergenerational solidarity; stressful life events; emotional closeness
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The purpose of this study is to explore the variation in emotional closeness in the adult grandchild and grandparent relationship in relation to the occurrence of potentially stressful life events in childhood. A sample of university students (N = 119) completed a questionnaire measuring elements of intergenerational solidarity. Comparisons were made on emotional closeness between groups that had and had not experienced a life event, revealing it was the grandparent's enactment of normative solidarity, as perceived by the adult grandchild, that produced greater emotional closeness. Complementing the findings of Bengston and Roberts, this research supports the theoretical view that high levels of normative solidarity lead to greater affectual solidarity, which in turn produces higher associational solidarity.
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