Filial Piety Observance & Caregiving to Grandparents: The Singapore Case

The research seeks to study the influence of filial piety on intergenerational grandchild-grandparent caregiving relationship in Singapore. The study uses a sociological framework combining Bengtson and Oyama’s Theory of Intergenerational Normative Solidarity, Merton’s Symbolic Interactionist Role T...

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Main Author: Lek, Adelin Wan Ling
Other Authors: Premchand Dommaraju
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2017
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-700392019-12-10T14:06:40Z Filial Piety Observance & Caregiving to Grandparents: The Singapore Case Lek, Adelin Wan Ling Premchand Dommaraju School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology The research seeks to study the influence of filial piety on intergenerational grandchild-grandparent caregiving relationship in Singapore. The study uses a sociological framework combining Bengtson and Oyama’s Theory of Intergenerational Normative Solidarity, Merton’s Symbolic Interactionist Role Theory and Connidis and McMullen’s Theory of Intergenerational Ambivalence. Filial Piety refers to the demonstration of filial obligations towards one’s parents and elders. The findings revealed that filial piety continues to guide grandchildrens’ filial observance in caregiving, where grandchildren performed the role of an auxiliary caregiver. However, the perception of filial piety is not static as it is being reinterpreted by grandchildren through their everyday experiences. In face of tension between their role as a caregiver with the structural constraints and opportunities of living in Singapore, grandchildren engage in negotiation as a strategy. Bachelor of Arts 2017-04-10T04:58:22Z 2017-04-10T04:58:22Z 2017 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70039 en Nanyang Technological University 31 p. application/pdf
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Filial Piety Observance & Caregiving to Grandparents: The Singapore Case
description The research seeks to study the influence of filial piety on intergenerational grandchild-grandparent caregiving relationship in Singapore. The study uses a sociological framework combining Bengtson and Oyama’s Theory of Intergenerational Normative Solidarity, Merton’s Symbolic Interactionist Role Theory and Connidis and McMullen’s Theory of Intergenerational Ambivalence. Filial Piety refers to the demonstration of filial obligations towards one’s parents and elders. The findings revealed that filial piety continues to guide grandchildrens’ filial observance in caregiving, where grandchildren performed the role of an auxiliary caregiver. However, the perception of filial piety is not static as it is being reinterpreted by grandchildren through their everyday experiences. In face of tension between their role as a caregiver with the structural constraints and opportunities of living in Singapore, grandchildren engage in negotiation as a strategy.
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title Filial Piety Observance & Caregiving to Grandparents: The Singapore Case
title_short Filial Piety Observance & Caregiving to Grandparents: The Singapore Case
title_full Filial Piety Observance & Caregiving to Grandparents: The Singapore Case
title_fullStr Filial Piety Observance & Caregiving to Grandparents: The Singapore Case
title_full_unstemmed Filial Piety Observance & Caregiving to Grandparents: The Singapore Case
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