4. METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN ASSESSING AMBIVALENCES IN INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS
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Published:2003
Frank Lettke, David M. Klein, 2003. "4. METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN ASSESSING AMBIVALENCES IN INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS", Intergenerational Ambivalences: New Perspectives on Parent-Child Relations in Later Life, Karl Pillemer, Kurt Luscher
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Although ambivalence is a common experience in family relations, the conceptualization of these relations has been focused on solidarity, closeness, and attraction on one hand, and on stress, distance, disruption, and abuse on the other. Ambivalence has not often been considered systematically for the analysis of intergenerational relations. Measurement instruments are not widely available for this purpose, because they tend to focus on one dimension at a time (Berscheid, 1983, pp. 115–116).
