ArticleJournal of health and social behavior2017
Children's Education and Parents' Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms.
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- Adult children's achievements and ageing parents' depressive symptoms in China.Ageing and society · 2022Article
- Does an upward intergenerational educational spillover effect exist? The effect of children's education on Chinese parents' health.International journal of health economics and management · 2022Article
- Offspring Education and Parents' Health Inequality in China: Evidence from Spillovers of Education Reform.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Black-White Differences in the Link Between Offspring College Attainment and Parents' Depressive Symptom Trajectories.Research on aging · 2022Article
- The Effect of Adult Children's Education Attainment on Their Parents' Cognitive Health: An Intergenerational Support Perspective.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Using five waves of the Taiwanese Longitudinal Study of Aging (1996-2011), we investigate (1) the association between family members' education and the age trajectories of individuals' depressive symptoms and (2) gender differences in those relationships. Our examination is guided by several theoretical frameworks, including social capital, social control, age as leveler, and resource substitution. Nested models show that having a more educated father is associated with lower depressive symptoms, but the relationship disappears after controlling for respondent's education. Including spouse's education attenuates the coefficient for respondent's education. A similar pattern appears when children's education is added to the model. Among all the family members, children's education has the strongest association with depressive symptoms, with a similar magnitude for both genders, although its strength gradually weakens as respondents age. Our findings suggest the importance of the transfer of resources from children to parents and how it may affect mental health at older ages.
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