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August 16, 2026Family Relations

Latent Patterns of Older Parents' Perceived Intergenerational Relationships in Urban China: The Role of Coresidence

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BLBin LianNWNing Wang

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Cohort study reveals distinct intergenerational relationship patterns linked to adult child coresidence in urban Chinese parents, highlighting shifting bilateral family norms.

Key Points

  • To identify latent patterns of perceived intergenerational relationships (PIR) among older parents in urban China and evaluate their associations with the gender and marital status of coresiding adult children.
  • Analyzed cross-sectional data from the 2021 Shanghai Family Cohort Study in China.
  • Applied latent class analysis based on affectual and conflictual relationship indicators to identify distinct PIR typologies.
  • Used multinomial logistic regression to evaluate links between relationship classes and coresidence characteristics stratified by parental gender.
  • Identified four distinct PIR classes: amicable, ambivalent, detached, and disharmonious.
  • Coresidence with married daughters rather than married sons was associated with a higher likelihood of amicable versus detached relationships, whereas living with unmarried children increased the likelihood of ambivalent relationships.
  • Maternal relationships varied more across living arrangements; mothers coresiding with married daughters and fathers coresiding with unmarried daughters had high probabilities of amicable PIR, while fathers coresiding with married daughters showed high ambivalence.

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Lian et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a817a60f2fb91fc834ae218https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.70342
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