How Gender Shapes Parent-Adult Child Consistency of Reporting Problems in Children’s Lives
Tamrah Verbanac, Destiny Ogle, Megan Gilligan, J Jill Suitor

TL;DR
The paper examines how gender influences how accurately parents and adult children report each other's problems.
Contribution
The study reveals gender-specific patterns in parent-adult child consistency of reporting problems.
Findings
Consistency is highest between mothers and daughters, and lowest between fathers and daughters.
Consistency increases for current problems that do not reflect poorly on either party.
Findings can help clinicians improve intergenerational communication during crises.
Abstract
Despite both parents’ and adult children’s declarations that they have an accurate picture of one another’s feelings and behaviors, research that has collected data separately from both members of parent-adult child dyads has shown that there are typically substantial discrepancies in their reports. One area in which such discrepancies may be of particular concern is adult children’s problems. Although parents are often a central source of practical support when adult children face crises, even in midlife, providing adequate support at the most advantageous time may be hindered by a lack of information sharing between the generations. In the present paper, we compare children’s reports of their current and recent problems with parents’ reports of their children’s problems, using data collected from mothers and fathers (aged ∼70) and at least one of their adult children (aged ∼40) in 85…
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Taxonomy
TopicsFamily Support in Illness · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
