Conflicting views on elder care responsibility in Japan |
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Institution: | 1. International Public Health Consultants, Auckland 0624, New Zealand;1. Department of Sociology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;2. Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;3. College of Social Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan |
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Abstract: | I examine the attitudinal ambivalence created by conflicting social expectations regarding parent-child devotion, filial obligation and family membership, and gender norms in a national population of Japanese adults. I ask: in a context of rapidly changing family and elder care norms, how do different beliefs and attitudes overlap and conflict and how are they related to elder care preferences? I analyze data from the 2006 Japanese General Social Survey and use Latent Class Analysis to identify latent groups in the population defined by their beliefs and examine the relationship between class membership and elder care preferences. I found variation in the population with respect to the measured beliefs as well as a relationship between patterns of beliefs and choice of elder caregiver. I found conflicting expectations regarding elder care responsibility in one latent class and this class also expressed elder care preferences that conflict with at least some of their strongly held beliefs. |
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Keywords: | Elder care Japan Family Gender |
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