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How Older Adults and Their Families Perceive Family Talk about Aging-Related EOL Issues: A Dialectical Analysis

Social interactions across media: Interpersonal communication on the Internet, telephone and face-to-face

Taiwanese young adults’ intergenerational communication schemas

Conflict-initiating factors in intergenerational relationships

Young adults' intergenerational communication schemas in Taiwan and the USA

Harmony, Hierarchy and Conservatism: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Confucian Values in China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan

Harmony, Hierarchy and Conservatism: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Confucian Values in China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan

Conversation topics and communication satisfaction in grandparent-grandchild relationships

Conversation Topics and Communication Satisfaction in Grandparent-Grandchild Relationships

Younger and Older Adults' Schematic Representations of Intergenerational Communication - The current paper examines younger and older adults' cognitive representations of intergenerational conversations. In interviews, younger and older adults were asked to imagine various types of conversations with older and younger targets. They were prompted to provide a wide variety of information about the targets and the conversations. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed to uncover types of conversations commonly reported. Through a combination of coding and hierarchical cluster analysis, a hierarchical arrangement of types of conversations emerged in younger and older adults' descriptions. In a second study, exemplars of each type were sorted by younger and older adults and subjected to multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis. The results supported the validity of the types from Study 1, and suggested dimensions underlying this arrangement (positive-negative and helping-not helping for the younger adults; positive-negative and high-low change orientation for the older adults). The findings are discussed in terms of the communication predicament of aging model, and the role that these representations of conversations may play in future research. It is argued that knowledge of these cognitive representations of communication provide a new perspective on the ways in which intergenerational interactions may progress

Special Issue: Negotiating Lifestyle Options in Later Life - Affiliation, Pride, Exchange, and Distance in Grandparents' Accounts of Relationships With Their College-Aged Grandchildren

Love, denial, and rejection. The response of Chinese families to mental illness