The Effects of Children’s Perceptions of Daily Hassles and Social Supports on Their Subjective Well-Being

The present paper considers daily hassles in different life domains, reveals their connections to the level of strain and perceived stress, investigates the role of psychological well-being and life satisfaction in the perception of the number of stressors and strain caused by stress. Methods: Inventory of daily stressors (Petrash et al.), Scale of perceived stress (Ababkov et al.), Psychological well-being scale (C. Ryff), Life satisfaction scale (E. Diener), a survey on satisfaction with different life domains. Sample: 334 adults aged 20—60 (118 males, 216 females). Results revealed hassles in all the life domains. Most pronounced hassles in women were those related to health, loneliness, competitiveness, job; most pronounced hassles in men were job-related, financial, health and family stressors. Perception of daily hassles was associated with an increase in the levels of stress overstrain and perceived stress. The number of stressors and the level of overstrain was higher in women. Psychological well-being, subjective well-being, and financial satisfaction were shown to be direct positive predictors of the number of perceived hassles and the level of overstrain.

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Children’s Perceptions of the Fairness of Parental Preferential Treatment and Their Socioemotional Well-Being

Interpersonal Development ◽

10.4324/9781351153683-25 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 427-436

Author(s):

Amanda Kowal ◽

Jennifer L. Krull ◽

Laurie Kramer ◽

Nicki R. Crick

Keyword(s):

Well Being ◽

Preferential Treatment ◽

Children's Perceptions ◽

Children’S Perceptions

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Accuracy of Adult Children’s Perceptions of Mothers’ Caregiver Preferences

The Gerontologist ◽

10.1093/geront/gny064 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 59 (3) ◽

pp. 528-537 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

J Jill Suitor ◽

Megan Gilligan ◽

Marissa Rurka ◽

Siyun Peng ◽

Jordan Meyer ◽

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Keyword(s):

Adult Children ◽

Filial Piety ◽

Well Being ◽

Psychological Consequences ◽

Older Mothers ◽

Health Events ◽

Children's Perceptions ◽

Children’S Perceptions ◽

High Level ◽

Design And Methods

AbstractBackground and ObjectivesMost older mothers have strong preferences regarding which offspring will serve as their future caregivers, and violation of these preferences has been found to have consequences for mothers’ psychological well-being. However, no study has examined the accuracy of adult children’s perceptions of their mothers’ caregiver preferences. In this article, we compare mothers’ stated preferences for particular caregivers with their adult children’s perceptions of their mothers’ preferences.Research Design and MethodsData were collected from 675 adult children and their mothers nested within 285 families as part of the Within-Family Differences Study.ResultsOnly 44.6% of adult children accurately reported their mothers’ preferences for particular offspring as caregivers. Consistent with our hypotheses, accuracy was higher when mothers and children shared values regarding filial piety, and lower when children were parents, had poor health, and lived further away. Surprisingly, primary caregivers were substantially less likely to accurately report mothers’ caregiver preferences than were noncaregivers. This counterintuitive pattern can be explained by the finding that most mothers were cared for by children whom they did not prefer and may have therefore been reluctant to share their preferences with those caregivers.Discussion and ImplicationsGiven the negative psychological consequences for mothers whose caregiver preferences are violated, the high level of inaccuracy found among adult children has important implications when mothers face serious health events. These findings underscore the need for intervention efforts to encourage practitioners and clinicians to collect information directly from mothers regarding preferences for particular offspring as caregivers.

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