Objectives:To explore the approaches for reducing non-suicidal self-injury(NSSI)behaviors in Chinese adolescents,the present study investigated the association between parent-child conflict and NSSI in adolescents,whi...Objectives:To explore the approaches for reducing non-suicidal self-injury(NSSI)behaviors in Chinese adolescents,the present study investigated the association between parent-child conflict and NSSI in adolescents,while also examining the mediating role of depression and the moderating role of rumination thinking.Methods:A cluster sampling method was employed to select 1227 Chinese adolescents aged 12 to 18 as participants,who completed measures including the Parent-Child conflict,Depression,Rumination Thinking,and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury questionnaires.The present study used SPSS 26.0 to conduct the Descriptive statistics,correlation analysis,and reliability tests,and PROCESS 3.3 to test the hypothesis model.Results:(1)There is a positive correlation between parent-child conflict and NSSI in adolescents;(2)Depression mediates the relationship between parent-child conflict and NSSI in adolescents;(3)Rumination thinking acts as a moderator in the association between parent-child conflict and depression.This study finds the indirect effect of depression on NSSI behaviors among Chinese adolescents.Furthermore,the study also finds protective factors by examining the role of reducing individual rumination thinking in mitigating negative emotions following adverse experiences.In conclusion,this research provides a pathway and foundation for enhancing interventions targeting NSSI behaviors among Chinese adolescents.Conclusion:The relationship between parent-child conflict and NSSI in adolescents is positively correlated.Depression acts as a mediator in the association between parent-child conflict and NSSI in adolescents.The effect of parent-child conflict on NSSI is positively moderated by rumination thinking.Specifically,low-level rumination thinking may mitigate the negative impact of parent-child conflict on depression.展开更多
Objectives:Attachment is a profound and enduring connection to the emotion children progressively form with their parents as they mature.It significantly impacts the social and psychological development of kids and te...Objectives:Attachment is a profound and enduring connection to the emotion children progressively form with their parents as they mature.It significantly impacts the social and psychological development of kids and teenagers.This study aimed to explore the latent profiles and longitudinal transition patterns of parent-child and peer attachments among adolescents.Methods:A cohort of 914 participants from China completed the measures with a twelve-month interval.There were 46.8%boys and 53.2%girls in this survey.Latent profile analysis(LPA)was adopted to explore the distinct profiles reflecting different parent-child and peer attachment response patterns at each time point.Latent transition analysis(LTA)was used to examine the membership of distinct latent profiles and how individuals move between profiles over time.Results:Three latent profiles were found:the poor parent-child communication profile,the moderate attachment profile,and the good attachment profile.It was shown that the transition probability from the poor parent-child communication and good attachment profiles to the moderate attachment profile was higher than the transition probability between the poor parent-child communication and good attachment profiles.Patterns of parent-child and peer attachments were associated with depression and anxiety.Conclusion:This study demonstrates differences in adolescents’attachment to fathers,mothers,and peers and the need for targeted interventions for groups of adolescents with moderate levels of parent-child and peer attachment.展开更多
Objectives:This study aimed to identify facilitators and barriers to parent-child communication in pediatric palliative care,providing insights for medical professionals developing targeted interventions to enhance pa...Objectives:This study aimed to identify facilitators and barriers to parent-child communication in pediatric palliative care,providing insights for medical professionals developing targeted interventions to enhance parent-child communication and improve its effectiveness.Methods:Whittemore and Knafl’s integrative review method was employed to guide a systematic search for literature in six databases(Medline,Embase,CINAHL Complete,PsycINFO,Web of Science,and Cochrane Library).Peer-reviewer articles published in the English language from inception to December 2023.All of the identified studies were screened,extracted,and analyzed independently by two researchers.Results:Twenty-four articles were included.Thefindings of the relevant studies were analyzed using thematic analysis.Four themes were identified as facilitators:legacy-making,resilience training programs,guidance from the healthcare team,and positive communication.Seven themes were identified as barriers:denial,being unprepared and evasive,mutual protection,being overwhelmed by painful emotions and overloaded with information,incorrect views of medical professionals and parents,negative communication,and cultural context.Conclusions:Parents and professionals should avoid myths about protecting the child and encourage open communication that respects the child’s wishes.The specialized pediatric palliative care team should carefully monitor parent-child communication,determine if any obstacles exist,and design more interventions to enhance it.展开更多
The implementation of China’s three-child fertility policy has led to a notable increase in multiple-child families.Notably,firstborn children experience a significant transition from being an only child to a non-only ...The implementation of China’s three-child fertility policy has led to a notable increase in multiple-child families.Notably,firstborn children experience a significant transition from being an only child to a non-only child.This transition is associated with problematic behaviors,affecting their social adjustment,sibling relationships,and family harmony.Although several studies have examined the relationship between parent-child attachment and problem behaviors exhibited byfirstborn children during family transitions,thefindings have been inconsistent.Hence,a meta-analytic study was undertaken to elucidate the inconsistencies in this relationship and explore the moderating factors that may contribute to these discrepancies.Using a systematic literature retrieval and screening method,12 effect sizes were derived from the 10 eligible articles,encompassing a sample size of 5319.The meta-analysis demonstrated a low negative association between parent-child secure attachment and problem behaviors exhibited byfirstborn children during family transitions.Furthermore,the present study investigates potential moderator factors,such as children’s age and geographic region,to gain a more nuanced understanding of the relationship.Consequently,the establishment of parent-child attachment relationships has the potential to mitigate problem behaviors observed infirst-born children during family transitions.The implications of thesefindings indicate that parents can nurture secure attachment bonds with their children by demonstrating sensitive responsiveness,employing positive parenting practices,and fostering emotional availability.These efforts contribute to the cultivation of secure internal working models and positive behavioral manifestations withinfirst-born children,which in turn affect their relationships with siblings.展开更多
Background: Studies have pointed out the influence of different children’s activities and prolonged use of digital products on their social development. However, whether the parent-child activities and using digital ...Background: Studies have pointed out the influence of different children’s activities and prolonged use of digital products on their social development. However, whether the parent-child activities and using digital devices were serial mediators of the relationship between children’s health and social development needs further verification. Purpose: This study explored how parent-child activities and children’s use of digital devices influence the relationship between children’s health and their social competence. Method: This study used data from Kids in Taiwan: National Longitudinal Study of Child Development and Care. A total sample of 2164 participants was used in this study. Serial mediation analyses were performed using model six of Hayes’ PROCESS (2012). Results: This study found that parent-child activities and the use of digital devices can serially mediate the relationship between children’s health and social competence. Children’s health could directly improve their social competence, but it could also serially mediate social competence by increasing parent-child activities and reducing the use of digital devices. Conclusion: Childcare policy planners and parenting educators should not only call on parents to reduce the use of electronic products for their children, but also encourage parents to spend more time interacting with their children, so that children can learn social skills by interacting with others in their daily lives.展开更多
From the perspective of the design of parent-child interaction landscapes,this paper took Wuhan Overseas Chinese Town (OCT) Park for example,explored children’s physiology,psychology and emotions as well as external ...From the perspective of the design of parent-child interaction landscapes,this paper took Wuhan Overseas Chinese Town (OCT) Park for example,explored children’s physiology,psychology and emotions as well as external factors,translated them into building landscape spaces,children’s emotion spaces,children’s exploration spaces,children’s social spaces,so as to facilitate parent-child interactions in these spaces,thereby to enhance the family-care education and parent-child emotional exchanges,and provide references for the construction of parent-child interaction spaces.展开更多
Internet technology is the greatest scientific and technological achievement of mankind in the 20th century.It has brought mankind into the information age and greatly changed people's way of learning,education,wo...Internet technology is the greatest scientific and technological achievement of mankind in the 20th century.It has brought mankind into the information age and greatly changed people's way of learning,education,work,leisure and entertainment,family education and so on.In the Internet age,underage children spend a considerable amount of time online,and they spend less time talking and communicating with their parents?Therefore,the development of network technology has posed a new challenge not only to school education and social education,but also to the traditional family education[6].So,under the impact and challenge of the network era,what countermeasures do family education apply to communicate well with children?This is the center of this research.展开更多
Objective: To explore the effect of family therapy in improving parent-child relationship of adolescent depression. Methods: From January 2021 to December 2021, 100 cases of adolescent depression were observed, and 50...Objective: To explore the effect of family therapy in improving parent-child relationship of adolescent depression. Methods: From January 2021 to December 2021, 100 cases of adolescent depression were observed, and 50 cases in each group were randomly divided into two groups. The control group received basic psychological guidance and the observation group received family therapy. The effective rate of treatment, depression score, intimacy and adaptability score, parents' emotional score, shame factor score and satisfaction degree of treatment were compared. Results: After family treatment, the effective rate of the observation group was significantly higher than that of the control group (P < 0.05). At the beginning of the group, the scores of the two groups were very close, and there was no significant difference (P > 0.05). After treatment, the scores of the two groups of patients were improved in different degrees, but the improvement degree of the patients in the observation group after family treatment was significantly better than that in the control group, and the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05). After different treatment methods, the satisfaction degree of patients and their families in the observation group who received home treatment reached 96.00%, while that of the control group and their families who received routine treatment was only 78.00. The satisfaction degree of the observation group was much higher than that of the control group, with a significant difference (P < 0.05). Conclusion: In the choice of treatment methods for adolescents with depression, family therapy is more effective. After receiving treatment for a period of time, it can gradually improve the influence of depression, promote family harmony, promote intimacy and adaptability. In addition, the parents' emotions of patients are more stable, which can improve the patients' shame factor score. It has high popularization and application value.展开更多
Objective:The study is to analyze the influence of parent-child relationship on pupils’learning motivation,and to explore the mediating mechanism of teacher-student relationship in parent-child relationship and learn...Objective:The study is to analyze the influence of parent-child relationship on pupils’learning motivation,and to explore the mediating mechanism of teacher-student relationship in parent-child relationship and learning motivation.Method:This study conducted a questionnaire survey on 213 pupils in Grades 5 and 6 in two schools in Beijing using Pianta’s teacher-student relationship scale revised by Qu,Dornbush’s parent-child intimacy scale revised by Zhang and the learning motivation scale adapted by Hu.Results:Gender,grade,whether they are the only child and to be a class cadre or not show significant differences in some dimensions of parent-child relationship,teacher-student relationship and learning motivation.The total scores of parent-child relationship,teacher-student relationship and learning motivation are positively correlated,and some sub dimensions are also significantly correlated.Parent-child relationship and teacher-student relationship have a significant positive predictive effect on learning motivation,and parent-child relationship has a significant positive predictive effect on teacher-student relationship.Teacher-student relationship plays a mediating role in the influence of parent-child relationship on learning motivation.Conclusions:Parent-child relationship can promote the relationship between teachers and students,and then enhance pupils’learning motivation.展开更多
Background Proper parent-child interaction is crucial for child development, but an assessment tool in Chinese is currently lacking. This study aimed to develop and validate a parent-reported parent-child interaction ...Background Proper parent-child interaction is crucial for child development, but an assessment tool in Chinese is currently lacking. This study aimed to develop and validate a parent-reported parent-child interaction scale for Chinese preschool children. Methods The Chinese parent-child interaction scale (CPCIS) was designed by an expert panel based on the literature and clinical observations in the Chinese context. The initial CPCIS had 14 parent-child interactive activity items. Psychometric properties of the CPCIS were examined using the Rasch model and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Convergent validity was investigated by the associations between CPCIS and family income, maternal education level, and children's school readiness. Results The study recruited 567 Chinese parent-child pairs from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, who completed the CPCIS. Six out of the 14 items in the initial CPCIS were dropped due to suboptimal fi t values. The refined 8-item CPCIS was shown to be valid and reliable by Rasch models and CFA. The person separation reliability and Cronbach's α of the CPCIS were 0.81 and 0.82, respectively. The CPCIS scores were positively associated with family's socioeconomic status (η2 = 0.05,P < 0.001), maternal education level (η2 = 0.08,P < 0.001), and children's school readiness (η2 = 0.01,P < 0.01). Conclusion CPCIS is an easily administered, valid, and reliable tool for the assessment of parent-child interactions in Chinese families.展开更多
This paper examines the motivations of parent-child co-residence behavior in China using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.We test three possible motives:social norms,self-interest and altru...This paper examines the motivations of parent-child co-residence behavior in China using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.We test three possible motives:social norms,self-interest and altruism.We find that social norms play an important role in household co-residence behavior,showing that the belief that"sons take care of parents"is strong,and children in different birth orders take different responsibilities.Taking the one-child policy as a natural experiment,we compared co-residence behavior between only-child and multi-child families.This allowed us to test whether children in multi-child families with wealthier parents more often coreside in order to compete for a bequest.We find that parents'wealth is more appealing to children in multi-child families.The results support the life cycle theory that coresidence decisions are motivated by self-interest.We also find some evidence of altruism when parents and children make co-residence decisions.These findings provide some insights for designing future elder-support policies in China.展开更多
文摘Objectives:To explore the approaches for reducing non-suicidal self-injury(NSSI)behaviors in Chinese adolescents,the present study investigated the association between parent-child conflict and NSSI in adolescents,while also examining the mediating role of depression and the moderating role of rumination thinking.Methods:A cluster sampling method was employed to select 1227 Chinese adolescents aged 12 to 18 as participants,who completed measures including the Parent-Child conflict,Depression,Rumination Thinking,and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury questionnaires.The present study used SPSS 26.0 to conduct the Descriptive statistics,correlation analysis,and reliability tests,and PROCESS 3.3 to test the hypothesis model.Results:(1)There is a positive correlation between parent-child conflict and NSSI in adolescents;(2)Depression mediates the relationship between parent-child conflict and NSSI in adolescents;(3)Rumination thinking acts as a moderator in the association between parent-child conflict and depression.This study finds the indirect effect of depression on NSSI behaviors among Chinese adolescents.Furthermore,the study also finds protective factors by examining the role of reducing individual rumination thinking in mitigating negative emotions following adverse experiences.In conclusion,this research provides a pathway and foundation for enhancing interventions targeting NSSI behaviors among Chinese adolescents.Conclusion:The relationship between parent-child conflict and NSSI in adolescents is positively correlated.Depression acts as a mediator in the association between parent-child conflict and NSSI in adolescents.The effect of parent-child conflict on NSSI is positively moderated by rumination thinking.Specifically,low-level rumination thinking may mitigate the negative impact of parent-child conflict on depression.
基金funded by the Shihezi University Innovation and Development Special Project“Research and Application of Knowledge Graph Based Big Data Platform for the Development Trend of College Students’Mental Health”(CXFZSK202205)by the China Young Pioneers Research Topic General Topic(2022YB16).
文摘Objectives:Attachment is a profound and enduring connection to the emotion children progressively form with their parents as they mature.It significantly impacts the social and psychological development of kids and teenagers.This study aimed to explore the latent profiles and longitudinal transition patterns of parent-child and peer attachments among adolescents.Methods:A cohort of 914 participants from China completed the measures with a twelve-month interval.There were 46.8%boys and 53.2%girls in this survey.Latent profile analysis(LPA)was adopted to explore the distinct profiles reflecting different parent-child and peer attachment response patterns at each time point.Latent transition analysis(LTA)was used to examine the membership of distinct latent profiles and how individuals move between profiles over time.Results:Three latent profiles were found:the poor parent-child communication profile,the moderate attachment profile,and the good attachment profile.It was shown that the transition probability from the poor parent-child communication and good attachment profiles to the moderate attachment profile was higher than the transition probability between the poor parent-child communication and good attachment profiles.Patterns of parent-child and peer attachments were associated with depression and anxiety.Conclusion:This study demonstrates differences in adolescents’attachment to fathers,mothers,and peers and the need for targeted interventions for groups of adolescents with moderate levels of parent-child and peer attachment.
文摘Objectives:This study aimed to identify facilitators and barriers to parent-child communication in pediatric palliative care,providing insights for medical professionals developing targeted interventions to enhance parent-child communication and improve its effectiveness.Methods:Whittemore and Knafl’s integrative review method was employed to guide a systematic search for literature in six databases(Medline,Embase,CINAHL Complete,PsycINFO,Web of Science,and Cochrane Library).Peer-reviewer articles published in the English language from inception to December 2023.All of the identified studies were screened,extracted,and analyzed independently by two researchers.Results:Twenty-four articles were included.Thefindings of the relevant studies were analyzed using thematic analysis.Four themes were identified as facilitators:legacy-making,resilience training programs,guidance from the healthcare team,and positive communication.Seven themes were identified as barriers:denial,being unprepared and evasive,mutual protection,being overwhelmed by painful emotions and overloaded with information,incorrect views of medical professionals and parents,negative communication,and cultural context.Conclusions:Parents and professionals should avoid myths about protecting the child and encourage open communication that respects the child’s wishes.The specialized pediatric palliative care team should carefully monitor parent-child communication,determine if any obstacles exist,and design more interventions to enhance it.
基金Funding of this research work is generously supported by the University Malaya Community Campus Grant-RUU2022-LL016Private Grant PV086-2022(University Poly-Tech MARA-UPTM),Kuala LumpurUniversitas Negeri Malang,Indonesia.
文摘The implementation of China’s three-child fertility policy has led to a notable increase in multiple-child families.Notably,firstborn children experience a significant transition from being an only child to a non-only child.This transition is associated with problematic behaviors,affecting their social adjustment,sibling relationships,and family harmony.Although several studies have examined the relationship between parent-child attachment and problem behaviors exhibited byfirstborn children during family transitions,thefindings have been inconsistent.Hence,a meta-analytic study was undertaken to elucidate the inconsistencies in this relationship and explore the moderating factors that may contribute to these discrepancies.Using a systematic literature retrieval and screening method,12 effect sizes were derived from the 10 eligible articles,encompassing a sample size of 5319.The meta-analysis demonstrated a low negative association between parent-child secure attachment and problem behaviors exhibited byfirstborn children during family transitions.Furthermore,the present study investigates potential moderator factors,such as children’s age and geographic region,to gain a more nuanced understanding of the relationship.Consequently,the establishment of parent-child attachment relationships has the potential to mitigate problem behaviors observed infirst-born children during family transitions.The implications of thesefindings indicate that parents can nurture secure attachment bonds with their children by demonstrating sensitive responsiveness,employing positive parenting practices,and fostering emotional availability.These efforts contribute to the cultivation of secure internal working models and positive behavioral manifestations withinfirst-born children,which in turn affect their relationships with siblings.
文摘Background: Studies have pointed out the influence of different children’s activities and prolonged use of digital products on their social development. However, whether the parent-child activities and using digital devices were serial mediators of the relationship between children’s health and social development needs further verification. Purpose: This study explored how parent-child activities and children’s use of digital devices influence the relationship between children’s health and their social competence. Method: This study used data from Kids in Taiwan: National Longitudinal Study of Child Development and Care. A total sample of 2164 participants was used in this study. Serial mediation analyses were performed using model six of Hayes’ PROCESS (2012). Results: This study found that parent-child activities and the use of digital devices can serially mediate the relationship between children’s health and social competence. Children’s health could directly improve their social competence, but it could also serially mediate social competence by increasing parent-child activities and reducing the use of digital devices. Conclusion: Childcare policy planners and parenting educators should not only call on parents to reduce the use of electronic products for their children, but also encourage parents to spend more time interacting with their children, so that children can learn social skills by interacting with others in their daily lives.
基金Philosophical and Social Sciences Program of Hubei Provincial Department of Education (21Y063)。
文摘From the perspective of the design of parent-child interaction landscapes,this paper took Wuhan Overseas Chinese Town (OCT) Park for example,explored children’s physiology,psychology and emotions as well as external factors,translated them into building landscape spaces,children’s emotion spaces,children’s exploration spaces,children’s social spaces,so as to facilitate parent-child interactions in these spaces,thereby to enhance the family-care education and parent-child emotional exchanges,and provide references for the construction of parent-child interaction spaces.
文摘Internet technology is the greatest scientific and technological achievement of mankind in the 20th century.It has brought mankind into the information age and greatly changed people's way of learning,education,work,leisure and entertainment,family education and so on.In the Internet age,underage children spend a considerable amount of time online,and they spend less time talking and communicating with their parents?Therefore,the development of network technology has posed a new challenge not only to school education and social education,but also to the traditional family education[6].So,under the impact and challenge of the network era,what countermeasures do family education apply to communicate well with children?This is the center of this research.
文摘Objective: To explore the effect of family therapy in improving parent-child relationship of adolescent depression. Methods: From January 2021 to December 2021, 100 cases of adolescent depression were observed, and 50 cases in each group were randomly divided into two groups. The control group received basic psychological guidance and the observation group received family therapy. The effective rate of treatment, depression score, intimacy and adaptability score, parents' emotional score, shame factor score and satisfaction degree of treatment were compared. Results: After family treatment, the effective rate of the observation group was significantly higher than that of the control group (P < 0.05). At the beginning of the group, the scores of the two groups were very close, and there was no significant difference (P > 0.05). After treatment, the scores of the two groups of patients were improved in different degrees, but the improvement degree of the patients in the observation group after family treatment was significantly better than that in the control group, and the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05). After different treatment methods, the satisfaction degree of patients and their families in the observation group who received home treatment reached 96.00%, while that of the control group and their families who received routine treatment was only 78.00. The satisfaction degree of the observation group was much higher than that of the control group, with a significant difference (P < 0.05). Conclusion: In the choice of treatment methods for adolescents with depression, family therapy is more effective. After receiving treatment for a period of time, it can gradually improve the influence of depression, promote family harmony, promote intimacy and adaptability. In addition, the parents' emotions of patients are more stable, which can improve the patients' shame factor score. It has high popularization and application value.
基金Collaborative education project of industry university cooperation of the Ministry of Education of China:Research on practice teaching of the competency of future mental health teachers based on virtual reality(No.202102080005).
文摘Objective:The study is to analyze the influence of parent-child relationship on pupils’learning motivation,and to explore the mediating mechanism of teacher-student relationship in parent-child relationship and learning motivation.Method:This study conducted a questionnaire survey on 213 pupils in Grades 5 and 6 in two schools in Beijing using Pianta’s teacher-student relationship scale revised by Qu,Dornbush’s parent-child intimacy scale revised by Zhang and the learning motivation scale adapted by Hu.Results:Gender,grade,whether they are the only child and to be a class cadre or not show significant differences in some dimensions of parent-child relationship,teacher-student relationship and learning motivation.The total scores of parent-child relationship,teacher-student relationship and learning motivation are positively correlated,and some sub dimensions are also significantly correlated.Parent-child relationship and teacher-student relationship have a significant positive predictive effect on learning motivation,and parent-child relationship has a significant positive predictive effect on teacher-student relationship.Teacher-student relationship plays a mediating role in the influence of parent-child relationship on learning motivation.Conclusions:Parent-child relationship can promote the relationship between teachers and students,and then enhance pupils’learning motivation.
基金This research was funded by project of National Social Science Foundation of China （13BSH061）, Science and Technology Development Plan Projects of Shandong Province （2013GSF11802）. The Key Discipline Construction Program of 12th Five-year Plan of Shandong province （Developmental and Educational Psychology）. And by two projects of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education of China （12YJC190004, 12YJC190009）.
文摘Background Proper parent-child interaction is crucial for child development, but an assessment tool in Chinese is currently lacking. This study aimed to develop and validate a parent-reported parent-child interaction scale for Chinese preschool children. Methods The Chinese parent-child interaction scale (CPCIS) was designed by an expert panel based on the literature and clinical observations in the Chinese context. The initial CPCIS had 14 parent-child interactive activity items. Psychometric properties of the CPCIS were examined using the Rasch model and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Convergent validity was investigated by the associations between CPCIS and family income, maternal education level, and children's school readiness. Results The study recruited 567 Chinese parent-child pairs from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, who completed the CPCIS. Six out of the 14 items in the initial CPCIS were dropped due to suboptimal fi t values. The refined 8-item CPCIS was shown to be valid and reliable by Rasch models and CFA. The person separation reliability and Cronbach's α of the CPCIS were 0.81 and 0.82, respectively. The CPCIS scores were positively associated with family's socioeconomic status (η2 = 0.05,P < 0.001), maternal education level (η2 = 0.08,P < 0.001), and children's school readiness (η2 = 0.01,P < 0.01). Conclusion CPCIS is an easily administered, valid, and reliable tool for the assessment of parent-child interactions in Chinese families.
文摘This paper examines the motivations of parent-child co-residence behavior in China using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.We test three possible motives:social norms,self-interest and altruism.We find that social norms play an important role in household co-residence behavior,showing that the belief that"sons take care of parents"is strong,and children in different birth orders take different responsibilities.Taking the one-child policy as a natural experiment,we compared co-residence behavior between only-child and multi-child families.This allowed us to test whether children in multi-child families with wealthier parents more often coreside in order to compete for a bequest.We find that parents'wealth is more appealing to children in multi-child families.The results support the life cycle theory that coresidence decisions are motivated by self-interest.We also find some evidence of altruism when parents and children make co-residence decisions.These findings provide some insights for designing future elder-support policies in China.
