ArticleJournal of marriage and the family2025
How Intergenerational Estrangement Matters for Maternal and Adult Children's Health.
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- From strain to estrangement: the role of personality in predicting parent-child relational outcomes.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Silver Splits and Parent-Child Disconnectedness: Mental Health Consequences for European Older Adults.European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie · 2025Article
- An unbreakable bond? Maternal adverse childhood experiences and mothers' relationships with adult children.Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 2025Article
- Dynamics of Adult Child-Mother Relationships in Emerging Adulthood by Gender and Race.Social psychology quarterly · 2025Article
- Parent-Child Disconnectedness and Older European Adults' Mental Health: Do Patterns Differ by Marital Status and Gender?The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Intergenerational Coresidence With Children and Grandchildren and Maternal Sleep Duration at Midlife.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Motherhood Biographies and Health over the Life Course.Sociology compass · 2025Article
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Abstract
Objective: We compare maternal and adult child health outcomes across 1) Background: We develop intergenerational resource, crisis, and strain theories to test the link between socially positive, socially negative, and estranged maternal-adult child dynamics and the health of both generations. Method: Regression models of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79 and NLSY79-CYA) data compare self-rated health and CES-D scores across maternal-adult child relationship types ( Results: Mothers with estranged ties report poorer health relative to those with socially positive ties. The health of adult children with estrangement exposure is similar to those in socially negative ties, and those with socially negative ties have worse health relative to socially positive ties. However, estranged adult children's mental health is not statistically different than those in socially positive ties. Family-level analyses incorporating siblings suggest that for mothers, an estranged/socially negative tie with Conclusion: This study has implications for research and theory on the health cost of socially negative and estranged intergenerational ties.
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