Journal Club - Feinian Chen
When |
Nov 17, 2021
from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM |
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Where | In Person - Bianchi Room, 2101C Morrill Hall |
Contact Name | Jennifer Doiron |
Contact Phone | 301-405-6403 |
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About this Session
Journal Club is a student-directed initiative helping young scholars to review literature, connect with senior scholars, and develop research plans. The discussion with Dr. Feinian Chen will be based off of the article, "The Mixed Blessing of Living Together or Close By: Parent-child Relationship Quality and Life Satisfaction of Older Adults in China." and can be found here: https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol44/24/ The discussion will benefit from review of the article ahead of time to generate questions.
A brief selection from the Abstract:
Background: Geographic proximity between parents and children is increasingly recognized as an alternative measure to coresidence as a gauge for intergenerational support in China. The quality of intergenerational relationships is another important dimension of intergenerational ties that is often underexplored.
Objective: We examine the association between parent–child proximity and life satisfaction of older adults and how it interacts with the quality of intergenerational relationships, particularly for vulnerable subpopulations.
Methods: We use data from the China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey (CLASS 2014). We use ordered logit models to predict life satisfaction scores (ranged 1 to 4).
About the Speaker
Feinian Chen received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001 and was trained in social demography at the Carolina Population Center. Her research crosscuts a range of areas in demography, family sociology, gender, aging, and quantitative methodology. Her main research interests include women's work and family, intergenerational relations, population aging and health. Her work has been published in the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Demography, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Sociological Methods and Research. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Hewlett Foundation. She is actively engaged in research in family transitions, gender dynamics, and their health implications in the diverse contexts of China, India, the Philippines, and the U.S.
RSVP to: Clayton Buck or Izidora Skracic
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