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Karl Pillemer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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do positive feelings hurt disaggregating positive and negative components of intergenerational Ambivalence
Journal of Marriage and Family, 2015Co-Authors: Megan Gilligan, Jill J Suitor, Scott L Feld, Karl PillemerAbstract:Ambivalence has become an important conceptual development in the study of parent–adult child relations, with evidence highlighting that intergenerational relationships are characterized by a mix of positive and negative components. Recent studies have shown that Ambivalence has detrimental consequences for both parents' and adult children's psychological well-being. The underlying assumption of this line of research is that psychological distress results from holding simultaneous positive and negative feelings toward a parent or child. The authors question this assumption and explore alternative interpretations by disaggregating the positive and negative dimensions commonly used to create indirect measures of intergenerational Ambivalence. Data for the analyses were collected from 254 older mothers and a randomly selected adult child from each of the families. The findings suggest that the negative component is primarily responsible for the association between indirect measures of Ambivalence and psychological well-being. Implications of these findings for the study of intergenerational Ambivalence are discussed.
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Ambivalence toward adult children differences between mothers and fathers
Journal of Marriage and Family, 2012Co-Authors: Karl Pillemer, Christin L Munsch, Thomas E Fullerrowell, Catherine Riffin, Jill J SuitorAbstract:The authors examined how Ambivalence toward adult children within the same family differs between mothers and fathers and whether patterns of maternal and paternal Ambivalence can be explained by the same set of predictors. Using data collected in the Within-Family Differences Study, they compared older married mothers' and fathers' (N = 129) assessments of Ambivalence toward each of their adult children (N = 444). Fathers reported higher levels of Ambivalence overall. Both mothers and fathers reported lower Ambivalence toward children who were married, better educated, and who they perceived to hold similar values; however, the effects of marital status and education were more pronounced for fathers, whereas the effect of children's value congruence was more pronounced for mothers. Fathers reported lower Ambivalence toward daughters than sons, whereas mothers reported less Ambivalence toward sons than daughters.
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capturing the complexity of intergenerational relations exploring Ambivalence within later life families
Journal of Social Issues, 2007Co-Authors: Karl Pillemer, Jill J Suitor, Steven E Mock, Myra Sabir, Tamara B Pardo, Jori SechristAbstract:This article reports on a study that incorporates two dimensions of complexity in intergenerational relations. First, the article focuses on Ambivalence: the simultaneous existence of positive and negative sentiments in the older parent–adult child relationship. Second, the research described here applies a within-family design to the study of Ambivalence, using a data set that includes 566 older mothers' assessments of Ambivalence toward all of their adult children. The findings provide general support for our conceptual approach to parental Ambivalence that highlights conflict between norms regarding solidarity with children and expectations that adult children should become independent. Lower Ambivalence was related to an adult child's being married. Children's problems were positively associated with Ambivalence, as was the mother's perception that exchange in the relationship was inequitable in the child's favor. Mother's health status and her perception that she and the child shared the same values were negatively associated with Ambivalence. Finally, Black mothers reported higher levels of Ambivalence than did White mothers, but the multivariate models explaining Ambivalence did not vary by race.
Peter Glick - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the two faces of adam ambivalent sexism and polarized attitudes toward women
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1997Co-Authors: Peter Glick, Jeffrey Diebold, Barbara Baileywerner, Lin ZhuAbstract:Two studies using Peter Glick and Susan Fiske's Ambivalent Sexism Inventory examined sexist men's attitudes toward women. The authors hypothesized that ambivalent sexist (as compared with nonsexist) men would habitually classify women into polarized subgroups (those they put on a "pedestal" and those they place in the "gutter"). Study 1 revealed that ambivalent sexism predicted greater polarization in men's evaluations of spontaneously generated female subtypes. Study 2 demonstrated that the negative component of sexist Ambivalence (hostile sexism) predicted less favorable evaluations of women in a nontraditional role (career women), whereas the subjectively positive component of sexist Ambivalence (benevolent sexism) predicted favorable feelings toward women in a traditional role (homemakers). Implications for the nature of sexist Ambivalence (and other forms of ambivalent prejudice) are discussed.
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the ambivalent sexism inventory differentiating hostile and benevolent sexism
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1996Co-Authors: Peter Glick, Susan T. FiskeAbstract:The authors present a theory of sexism formulated as Ambivalence toward women and validate a corresponding measure, the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI). The ASI taps 2 positively correlated components of sexism that nevertheless represent opposite evaluative orientations toward women: sexist antipathy or Hostile Sexism (HS) and a subjectively positive ( for sexist men ) orientation toward women, Benevolent Sexism (BS). HS and BS are hypothesized to encompass 3 sources of male Ambivalence: Paternalism, Gender Differentiation, and Heterosexuality. Six ASI studies on 2,250 respondents established convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity. Overall ASI scores predict ambivalent attitudes toward women, the HS scale correlates with negative attitudes toward and stereotypes about women, and the BS scale (for nonstudent men only) correlates with positive attitudes toward and stereotypes about women. A copy of the ASI is provided, with scoring instructions, as a tool for further explorations of sexist Ambivalence.
Steven H Zarit - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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adult children s problems and successes implications for intergenerational Ambivalence
Journals of Gerontology Series B-psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2010Co-Authors: Kira S Birditt, Karen L Fingerman, Steven H ZaritAbstract:Ambivalence theory suggests that parents experience Ambivalence due to conflicting desires to help children in need and to launch children into adulthood. This study examined parents' reports of their adult children's problems and successes and implications for Ambivalence. Participants aged 40-60 years (302 men and 331 women from different families) reported on up to 3 of their adult children (N = 1,251). Men and women differentiated among children in ratings of problems, successes, and Ambivalence. Men and not women reported greater Ambivalence regarding children with more physical-emotional problems and less career success. Men and women reported greater Ambivalence regarding children with less relationship success. Consistent with Ambivalence theory, individuals feel more ambivalent regarding problematic and less successful children but men's Ambivalence appears to be more sensitive to their children's problems and successes than women's Ambivalence.
Eliud Wekesa - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Ambivalence in pregnancy intentions the effect of quality of care and context among a cohort of women attending family planning clinics in kenya
PLOS ONE, 2018Co-Authors: Eliud Wekesa, Ian Askew, Timothy AbuyaAbstract:Context Ambivalence in pregnancy intentions is well-documented in sub-Saharan African (SSA) settings and has been associated with inconsistent use of contraception, thereby exposing women using contraception to the possibility of unintended pregnancies. A better understanding of the potential role for client counseling interventions in enabling women to achieve their pregnancy intentions is essential for aiding program efforts to reduce unintended pregnancies. Objective To measure Ambivalence in pregnancy intentions longitudinally and determine its association with the quality of care received, controlling for demographic, socio-economic and contextual factors among a cohort of family planning (FP) clients in Kenya. Methods This paper uses data drawn from a prospective cohort study of FP clients to investigate the relationship between the quality of care received during FP service delivery and the decisiveness of their pregnancy intentions over time. The study tests the hypothesis that higher quality of care enables women to be less ambivalent about their pregnancy intentions. Binary logistic regression with random effects and multinomial logistic regression were used to assess the predictive effect of the quality of care received by a woman on the decisiveness or Ambivalence of her pregnancy intentions, and on any shifts in Ambivalence over time, controlling for background characteristics. The study recruited 1,957 women aged 15–49 years attending twelve family planning clinics in four counties in Central Kenya; of these, 1,053 women were observed for four rounds of data collection over a period of 24 months and form the sample for analysis. Findings A substantial proportion (43%) of women expressed Ambivalence about their intentions to become pregnant at some point during the study period, while over half (57%) remained unequivocal throughout the study. Almost one third of women (31%) shifted from being unequivocal to ambivalent and 12% shifted from Ambivalence to being unequivocal. Women experiencing higher quality of care have lower odds of ever expressing Ambivalence and higher odds of remaining unequivocal over time, net of other factors. Quality of care was not associated with a shift in Ambivalence over time. Conclusion FP programs offering higher quality of care are likely to support women to be more decisive in their pregnancy intentions. Improving the quality of care can contribute to reduced Ambivalence and consequently reduced likelihood of unintended pregnancy among contraceptive users. This study provides further evidence of the benefits gained through providing high quality services. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01694862
Jill J Suitor - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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do positive feelings hurt disaggregating positive and negative components of intergenerational Ambivalence
Journal of Marriage and Family, 2015Co-Authors: Megan Gilligan, Jill J Suitor, Scott L Feld, Karl PillemerAbstract:Ambivalence has become an important conceptual development in the study of parent–adult child relations, with evidence highlighting that intergenerational relationships are characterized by a mix of positive and negative components. Recent studies have shown that Ambivalence has detrimental consequences for both parents' and adult children's psychological well-being. The underlying assumption of this line of research is that psychological distress results from holding simultaneous positive and negative feelings toward a parent or child. The authors question this assumption and explore alternative interpretations by disaggregating the positive and negative dimensions commonly used to create indirect measures of intergenerational Ambivalence. Data for the analyses were collected from 254 older mothers and a randomly selected adult child from each of the families. The findings suggest that the negative component is primarily responsible for the association between indirect measures of Ambivalence and psychological well-being. Implications of these findings for the study of intergenerational Ambivalence are discussed.
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Ambivalence toward adult children differences between mothers and fathers
Journal of Marriage and Family, 2012Co-Authors: Karl Pillemer, Christin L Munsch, Thomas E Fullerrowell, Catherine Riffin, Jill J SuitorAbstract:The authors examined how Ambivalence toward adult children within the same family differs between mothers and fathers and whether patterns of maternal and paternal Ambivalence can be explained by the same set of predictors. Using data collected in the Within-Family Differences Study, they compared older married mothers' and fathers' (N = 129) assessments of Ambivalence toward each of their adult children (N = 444). Fathers reported higher levels of Ambivalence overall. Both mothers and fathers reported lower Ambivalence toward children who were married, better educated, and who they perceived to hold similar values; however, the effects of marital status and education were more pronounced for fathers, whereas the effect of children's value congruence was more pronounced for mothers. Fathers reported lower Ambivalence toward daughters than sons, whereas mothers reported less Ambivalence toward sons than daughters.
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capturing the complexity of intergenerational relations exploring Ambivalence within later life families
Journal of Social Issues, 2007Co-Authors: Karl Pillemer, Jill J Suitor, Steven E Mock, Myra Sabir, Tamara B Pardo, Jori SechristAbstract:This article reports on a study that incorporates two dimensions of complexity in intergenerational relations. First, the article focuses on Ambivalence: the simultaneous existence of positive and negative sentiments in the older parent–adult child relationship. Second, the research described here applies a within-family design to the study of Ambivalence, using a data set that includes 566 older mothers' assessments of Ambivalence toward all of their adult children. The findings provide general support for our conceptual approach to parental Ambivalence that highlights conflict between norms regarding solidarity with children and expectations that adult children should become independent. Lower Ambivalence was related to an adult child's being married. Children's problems were positively associated with Ambivalence, as was the mother's perception that exchange in the relationship was inequitable in the child's favor. Mother's health status and her perception that she and the child shared the same values were negatively associated with Ambivalence. Finally, Black mothers reported higher levels of Ambivalence than did White mothers, but the multivariate models explaining Ambivalence did not vary by race.
