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KMID : 1023720120560010061
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Journal of Welfare for the Aged
2012 Volume.56 No. 1 p.61 ~ p.91
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The effect of intimacy toward parents among middle-aged male and female adult children on their willingness to perform care-giving practices for their elderly parents-focused on the second order mediators-
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Shin Sung-Ja
Lee Won-June
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Abstract
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With increasing social issues of related to the provision of care-giving services for the elderly who can not perform activity of daily living, this paper presents a study on the willingness of adult-children to provide care-giving services for their parents and its correlates. The primary concerns of the study focus on: (1) the direct effects of the individuals’ intimacy toward the parent on their willingness to perform care-giving practices, their emotional commitment to care-givng, and efficacy in care giving roles; (2) the mediating effects of an individual commitment to care-giving and their self-efficacy for care-giving roles on their willingness to provide care-giving practice resulting from their intimacy towards their intimacy towards their parents;(3) the second order mediating effects of the two mediating variables. Research is based on a survey conducted with middle aged married males(318) and females(456) who have at least one living parents, residing in Daegu or Kyungpook province. In order to address the research questions, a structural equation model is explored. Total indirect effect, each individual mediator’s effect and the second order effect of two mediators(emotional commitment to care-giving and self efficacy of care-giving roles)are verified based on bias-corrected bootstrapping analysis using
Mplus. Practical implications are discussed based on the study findings.
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KEYWORD
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family care-giver, care-giving practice, emotional commitment, intimacy, self-efficacy, adult children, middle age, care-giving for elderly parents
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