Separated kin: location of multiple children and mental health trajectories of older parents in rural China

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dc.contributor.authorLin, Zhiyong
dc.contributor.authorTang, Dan
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-25T18:34:43Z
dc.date.available2022-10-25T18:34:43Z
dc.date.issued2021-12-24
dc.descriptionThis is the accepted version of the manuscript and is embargoed until December 25, 2022. Final published version available at https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2021.2019191.en_US
dc.description.abstractObjective: This study examines the longitudinal association between the location of multiple children and depressive symptoms of older parents in rural China, where massive rural-to-urban migration has profoundly altered the family life of the aging population. Methods: Using seven waves of panel data from the Longitudinal Study of Older Adults in Anhui Province (2001-2018, N = 8,253) and multilevel growth curve models, this study compares mental health trajectories of old parents across different compositions of local and migrant children over an 18-year time period. Results: The results show that older parents with a greater share of adult children who had migrated away not only scored worse mental health on average, but also experienced a more rapid increase in depressive symptoms across ages, after accounting for other covariates. Further, older adults who had their most children migrated away for a longer period of time suffered from the steeper rate of increase in depressive symptoms as they got older. Conclusions: We suggest that it is not the geographic locality of a single child but the location of multiple children that matters for parental mental health in later life.en_US
dc.description.departmentSociologyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was partly supported by the National Institute on Aging (Grant P30AG066614) and the U.S. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Grant P2CHD042849). Data collections was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 71573207, 72074177).en_US
dc.identifier.citationZhiyong Lin & Dan Tang (2021) Separated kin: location of multiple children and mental health trajectories of older parents in rural China, Aging & Mental Health, DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2021.2019191en_US
dc.identifier.issn1364-6915
dc.identifier.otherDOI: 10.1080/13607863.2021.2019191
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12588/1142
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAging & Mental Health;
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectintergenerational proximityen_US
dc.subjectmultiple childrenen_US
dc.subjectrural Chinaen_US
dc.subjectChinaen_US
dc.subjectdepressive symptomsen_US
dc.titleSeparated kin: location of multiple children and mental health trajectories of older parents in rural Chinaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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