Family Relationships and Well-Being
Abstract
Family relationships are enduring and consequential for well-being across the life course. We discuss several types of family relationships-marital, intergenerational, and sibling ties-that have an important influence on well-being. We highlight the quality of family relationships as well as diversity of family relationships in explaining their impact on well-being across the adult life course. We discuss directions for future research, such as better understanding the complexities of these relationships with greater attention to diverse family structures, unexpected benefits of relationship strain, and unique intersections of social statuses.
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Patricia A. Thomas, Hui Liu, Debra Umberson (2017). Family Relationships and Well-Being. Innovation in Aging. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igx025
@article{a2017family,
title = {Family Relationships and Well-Being},
author = {Thomas, Patricia A. and Liu, Hui and Umberson, Debra},
year = {2017},
journal = {Innovation in Aging},
doi = {10.1093/geroni/igx025}
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