Parental death and offspring psychological wellbeing in Korea
제목
Parental death and offspring psychological wellbeing in Korea
저자
Hyeyoung Woo
; Jung, Youn
; Jinyoung Kim
키워드
single-parent household
; parental death
; psychological well-being
발행연도
2013-06-30
발행기관
한국사회학회
인용정보
Korean Journal of Sociology, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 91 - 114
초록
Despite increased social attention for single-parent households, our understanding about how parental death influences children’s health in the long term is less clear. This study aims to explore the association between parental death and offspring psychological well-being using data from the 2011 Survey of Health Inequalities in Korea (SHIK). Our results show that children whose parent died while growing up have lower levels of psychological well-being in adulthood compared to those who did not experience parental death. This negative association is largely attributed to a lack of social support. Specifically, children of parental death are less likely to be married or seem to have fewer supports from various social relationships in adulthood. Results also show that the detrimental influence of parental death is worse for those who experienced parental death at later developmental stages and for those who lost their father than mother. We discuss implications of the findings of the study and suggest directions for future study.
