ArticleSSM - population health2019
Older mother's health and adult children's education: Conceptualization of adult children's education and mother-child relationships.
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- Offspring Educational Disadvantage and Parents' Dementia Onset: Does the Educational Success of One Child Moderate the Educational Disadvantage of Another?The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
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- Adult Childrens' College Completion Timing and Their Aging Mothers' Self-Rated Health: The Role of Mothers' Educational Attainment.Journal of adult development · 2025Article
- Does schooling attained by adult children affect parents' psychosocial well-being in later life? Using Mexico's 1993 compulsory schooling law as a quasi-experiment.SSM - population health · 2024Article
- Children's Transitions to Adulthood and Midlife Parents' Depressive Symptoms and Activities of Daily Living Conditions in the United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Adult Children's Education and Mothers' Psychological Well-Being: Do Adult Children's Problems Mediate This Relationship?The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- Offspring Education and Parents' COVID-19 Vaccination.Research on agingArticle
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Abstract
This study joins and extends an emerging body of work examining the association between adult children's education and their parents' health by (1) providing a conceptual treatment of adult children's education, (2) examining the link between adult children's education and older mothers' physical and mental health, and (3) investigating whether mother-child relationships moderate the association between children's education and mothers' health. Data on 541 older mothers in the U.S. who reported on all of their adult children collected as part of the Within-Family Differences Study. Results indicate the best performing measure of adult children's education, the proportion with a college degree or higher, reflects a cumulative, credential-based approach. In addition, the proportion of adult children with a college degree or higher maintains a negative association with mother's depressive symptoms and activity limitations net of mother's own education as well as a number of sociodemographic factors and adult children's measures. There was no evidence that various aspects of mother-child relationships (geographic proximity, frequency of contact, and quality of relationships) moderated these negative associations.
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