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Intergenerational Relationships in Families Influenced by War: a Study of Vietnamese War Survivors

Year: 2017

Type: conference-abstract

Abstract: Research conducted among U.S. veterans demonstrates that war exposure and PTSD can strain the very family relationships that lend support for post-conflict readjustment, but can also generate uniquely supportive service-based friendships. We need to better understand how military service and war exposure influence intergenerational relationships in less developed, post-conflict settings where war’s violence has concentrated, and where family systems are central to old-age support. We contribute to scholarship on military service and older adult wellbeing by assessing structures and quality of family relationships among Vietnamese older adult war survivors, a population whose widely diverse war exposures has received scant scholarly attention. Our analyses of 405 older adults surveyed in the Vietnam Health and Aging Study (2010), provide evidence to suggest that particularly stressful war exposures tend to visit lasting strain upon intergenerational relationships, especially in less-developed countries that have experienced war.

Source: Innovation in Aging

DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igx004.215

Authors: K. Korinek, B.P. Teerawichitchainan

Institutions: University of Utah, Singapore Management University

Language: English

Topic: Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,977