4. METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN ASSESSING AMBIVALENCES IN INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS

Abstract

Although ambivalence is a common experience in family relations, the conceptualization of these relations has been focused on solidarity, closeness, and attraction on one hand, and on stress, distance, disruption, and abuse on the other. Ambivalence has not often been considered systematically for the analysis of intergenerational relations. Measurement instruments are not widely available for this purpose, because they tend to focus on one dimension at a time (Berscheid, 1983, pp. 115–116).

Citation

Lettke, F. and Klein, D.M. (2003), "4. METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN ASSESSING AMBIVALENCES IN INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS", Pillemer, K. and Luscher, K. (Ed.) Intergenerational Ambivalences: New Perspectives on Parent-Child Relations in Later Life (Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, Vol. 4), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 85-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1530-3535(03)04004-4