LIVING IN THE SAME HOUSE: AN INTERGENERATIONAL COMPARATIVE

The aim of this study is to conduct the validity and reliability analysis of Turkish adaptation of ‘Assessment Conflict in Coresidence with Elderly People’ scale developed by Postigo and Honrubia (2010). The study involves 260 persons from three generations. Hacettepe University (Ankara) students are the sample of young generation. Their parents and grandparents are the sample of adult and older people generation. The results show that, there are significant differences between the responses of grandchildren and grandparents to the statements of ‘Grandparents help with housework’, ‘Grandparents make emotionally unjust threats using their diseases’, ‘Grandparents are more tolerant than they were before’.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Intergenerational relations, intergenerational conflict, coresidence with elderly people

AYNI EVDE YAŞAMAK: KUŞAKLARARASI BİR KARŞILAŞTIRMA

Bu çalışmanın amacı, Postigo ve Honrubia (2010) tarafından geliştirilen ‘Yaşlılarla Aynı Evde Yaşanan Çatışmanın Değerlendirilmesi’ ölçeği-nin Türkiye örneğinde geçerlik ve güvenirlik analizlerinin yapılmasıdır. Yapılan çalışma üç kuşağa ait 260 veri içermektedir. Hacettepe Üniversitesi’nde (Ankara) öğrenim gören öğrenciler genç nesil örneklemini oluşturmaktadır. Öğrencilerin ebeveynleri ve büyük ebeveynleri ise, yetişkin ve yaşlı bireylere ilişkin örneklemdir. Çalışmanın sonuçları, torunlar ve büyük ebeveynlerin, ‘Büyük ebeveynler ev işlerine yardım ederler.’, ‘Büyük ebeveynler hastalıklarını bahane ederek duygusal tehditlerde bulunurlar.’, ‘Büyük ebeveynler eskiden olduklarına göre daha toleranslılardır.’, ifadelerine verdikleri cevaplar arasında anlamlı farklılıklar bulunduğunu göstermektedir.

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