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Young Adults Socialization to Caregiving: A Path Analysis Study (93730)
Session Chair: Christine Unson
This presentation will be live-streamed via Zoom (Online Access)
Friday, 16 May 2025 12:40
Session: Session 2
Room: Live-Stream Room 1
Presentation Type: Live-Stream Presentation
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Purpose: Despite the growing demand for informal care of older people and the decreasing supply of children, only a handful of studies have examined young adults’ socialization to provide care for their older relatives. We used the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Social Learning to hypothesize pathways from parental, peer, or media (PPM) care modeling to young, US adults’ willingness to provide care (WPC). Methods. The sample (N=200, aged 18-35 years, 100 white/100 African Americans, 100 males/100 females), was purchased from Qualtrics XM. Respondents rated caregiving attitudes, subjective norms (SN), perceived behavioral control (PBC), and observations of positive caregiving by parents, peers, and media depictions. This cross-sectional, path analysis (AMOS v28) study was approved by the university’s Institutional Review Board. Results: The model explained 42% of the variance. The total effects on WPC of parental, peer and media modeling are .23, .10, .08, respectively. Parental modeling, attitudes, SN, and PBC had direct paths to WPC. SN mediated the effects of parental and media modeling; attitudes mediated the effects of peer modeling on WPC. SN mediated the effects of attitudes and PBC on WPC. The model met several criteria for goodness-of-fit: X2 (9) = 4.95, p=84, RMSEA less than .04; TLI, CFI, GFI > .90; CMIN/DF < 2. Conclusion: Parental, peer and media modeling had small yet significant effects on WPC and suggest implications for informal care of older people. Further study is needed to explore the pathways from observations of positive caregiving to WPC via a willingness to comply.
Authors:
Christine Unson, Southern Connecticut State University, United States
Thomas George, Southern Connecticut State University, United States
Ellen Twum, Southern Connecticut State University, United States
Mary Simpson, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Kirstie McAllum, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Stephanie Fox, University of Montreal, Canada
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Christine Unson is a University Professor/Principal Lecturer at Southern Connecticut State University in United States
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