Season's greetings: Adults' social contacts at the holiday season

Article Abstract:

Close ties with friends and family are important in adults' lives, but the implications of infrequent or peripheral social ties maintained by adults are not well known. Marketing research shows that adults of all ages buy greeting cards, and some adults write notes, newsletters or personalized cards. The holiday card forum was examined to understand the ways relationships are maintained through holiday greetings, how recipients react to the holiday cards and whether holiday card ties contribute to the social well being of adults. Younger adults saw their holiday greetings as a way of maintaining or building new social links, while older adults saw their holiday greetings as a link to their past.

Age, Age (Biology), Greeting cards

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Aging mothers' and their adult daughters' perceptions of conflict behaviors

Article Abstract:

Aging mothers have differing views of the quality of their relationship when compared with their daughters' perceptions of the relationship. Mothers were more likely to report that they used constructive approaches to conflict resolution when disagreeing with their daughters. However, the daughters reported that they typically used destructive or avoidant approaches to conflict and that these behaviors were not perceived by their mothers. Mothers reported afterward that their daughters retained positive feelings about the incident, but this was contradicted by daughters' reports.

Aged women, Elderly women

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Sources of tension in the aging mother and adult daughter relationship

Article Abstract:

Tension in the aging mother-adult daughter relationship arises from sources such as intrusiveness, exclusion, inappropriate care of self or other, or general habits or traits. The sources of tension, as reported by mothers and daughters, are associated with the notion of developmental schism. Discrepancies in mother's and daughter's adult development at different times can contribute to interpersonal tension in their relationship.

Analysis, Interpersonal conflict, Old age, Intergenerational relations

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