I F Lin

Datos Biográficos

ID57732
NOMBREI F Lin
NOMBRESI F
APELLIDOLin
FIRMALIN I F
AFILIACIONESBowling Green State University
ORCID0000-0001-9070-990X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS50
TOTAL DE CITAS556
TOTAL COMO AUTOR50
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1995
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H14

  • Caregivers as Care Recipients

    Open AccessJanecca A Chin, I F LinARTICLEResearch on Aging2026

    This study examines how unpaid caregiving histories shape older adults’ perceptions of whether their children will be willing and available to provide future care. Existing frameworks suggest caregiving reinforces expectations of future support, but less understood is how caregiving may also heighten awareness of its burdens and how this relationship varies across heterogeneous caregiving histories. Using life history data from the Health and Ret…

  • Kinlessness, sole family survivorship, and the mental and physical health of U.S. older adults

    Open AccessSusan L Brown, I F Lin et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

  • Lifespan caregiving profiles in the United States

    Open AccessJanecca A Chin, Janecca Chin et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2025Referencias: 10

    Lifespan caregiving patterns in the United States are far from uniform. As demands on family caregivers continue to grow, identifying lifespan caregiving profiles offers a foundation for tailoring support to caregivers' diverse experiences

  • Incongruent caregiver–care recipient reports by care task and relationship type

    Open AccessJanecca A Chin, Janecca Chin et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2025Referencias: 2

    Finding underscores the importance of considering the quality and context of care reports. Amidst an increasingly complex and diverse care landscape, recognizing patterns of care reporting by task and relationship type is critical for improving survey design, advancing caregiving research, and informing policies to better support unpaid caregivers

  • Parent–Adult Child Relationships and Repartnering After Gray Divorce

    Open AccessL Brown, Susan L Brown et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2025Citada por: 2Referencias: 1

    Objectives The rise in gray divorce has catalyzed repartnering in later life. However, the antecedents of older adult repartnering remain poorly understood, particularly the potential role of adult children. A form of ambiguous loss, marital disruption often leads to family boundary ambiguity, thereby weakening family ties. We investigated whether co-residence and proximity of, frequent contact with, and downward transfers to adult children were …

  • Adult children's responsiveness to parental needs during the pandemic

    Open AccessI F Lin, Emily E Wiemers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2025Referencias: 45

    ObjectivesGuided by the life-course principles of linked lives embedded in historical time and place, we investigated whether nonresident adult children provided financial and time assistance to parents in response to their needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.BackgroundAdult children are an important source of support for older adults during crises, yet their ability to help parents may have been constrained during the pandemic.MethodData were ext…

  • Marital separation, reconciliation, and repartnering in later life

    Open AccessL Brown, Susan L Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2025Referencias: 39

    ObjectiveThe growth in gray divorce raises new questions about the marital dissolution process experienced by older adults. Our goal was to assess patterns of reconciliation among couples following marital separation, treating forming a union with a new partner as a competing risk.BackgroundRepartnering after a gray divorce is common, particularly among men. However, the extent to which older adults reconcile with their spouses is unknown. In lin…

  • Gray divorce and parent–child disconnectedness

    Open AccessI F Lin, Susan L Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2024

    Objective: Drawing on the divorce-stress-adjustment framework, the authors assessed whether parent-adult child relationship dynamics, including disconnectedness from an adult child, exacerbates the negative impact of gray divorce on parental well-being. Background: Divorce after age 50 is increasingly common but the role of parent-child relationships in parents' adjustment to gray divorce is largely unknown. Method: Using panel data from 1998 to …

  • Mother–Child Closeness and Adult Children’s Time and Financial Assistance

    Open AccessI F Lin, Anna M Hammersmith et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2024Referencias: 12

    Mother-child closeness is a continuously evolving process. Although mother-child bond formed during adolescence has no direct influence on help to mothers later in life, it shapes the progression of mother-child interactions over time that eventuates in support

  • Racial–Ethnic Gaps in Pandemic-Related Economic Hardship

    Open AccessEmily E Wiemers, I F Lin et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2024Referencias: 4

    Results point to structural factors generating new racial-ethnic gaps in pandemic-related economic hardship among those approaching retirement (ages 55-74) that did not affect the oldest adults (ages 75+)

  • Stepfamily variation in parent–child relationship quality in later life

    Open AccessI F Lin, J A SeltzerARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2024Citada por: 3Referencias: 40

    This study underscores the importance of considering mothers' and fathers' different points of view in the same family and examining both positive and negative parent-child interactions as negative relationships are not merely the reverse of positive relationships

  • Intergenerational support among widowed older adults in China

    Open AccessZhenmei Zhang, I F Lin et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024Referencias: 3

    With the rapid aging of the Chinese population, growing attention has been given to old-age support. Widowed older adults constitute a particularly vulnerable population because the loss of a spouse can lead to financial hardships and emotional distress. We used data from the 2002 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey to examine multiple dimensions of old-age support among a nationwide sample of widowed old adults ages 65 and older (N = 1…

  • A Brief Report on Living Arrangements Following Gray Divorce

    Open AccessSusan L Brown, I F Lin et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2023Citada por: 2Referencias: 5

    After divorce, older adults reside in a range of living arrangements, some of which are more stable than others. Future work should address whether and how these arrangements and their durability are related to postdivorce adjustment

  • Gray Divorce During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessSusan L Brown, I F Lin et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2023Citada por: 2Referencias: 9

    The gray divorce rate now mirrors the overall trend of modest decline in U.S. divorce patterns. Whether the gray divorce rate continues to shrink as society transitions to a postpandemic environment awaits future research

  • The rising midlife first marriage rate in the U.S

    Open AccessSusan L Brown, I F Lin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2022

    Objective: This study documented change in the midlife first marriage rate for U.S. adults aged 40-59 between 1990 and 2019 and assessed the sociodemographic correlates of midlife first marriage formation for today's women and men. Background: Median ages at first marriage are at record highs for women and men, signaling that marriage may be increasingly occurring at older ages. However, first marriage formation among midlife adults remains large…

  • Covid-19-Related Changes in Assistance Networks for U.S. Older Adults with and without Dementia

    Open AccessMonique J Brown, Haowei Wang et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2022Citada por: 2Referencias: 1

    Early in the pandemic, assistance networks of older adults adapted by substituting helpers, by contracting to reduce exposures with more intimate tasks for recipients with dementia, and by reducing transportation assistance. Future research should explore the impact of such changes on the well-being of older adults and their assistance networks

  • The Graying of Divorce

    Open AccessSusan L Brown, I F Lin et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2022Citada por: 21Referencias: 4

    Our study illustrates the graying of divorce over the past half century. Nowadays, 36% of U.S. adults getting divorced are aged 50 or older. The only age group with an increasing divorce rate is adults aged 65 and older, raising new questions about how they will navigate old age

  • Sole Family Survivors

    Open AccessSusan L Brown, Kagan A Mellencamp et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2021Citada por: 5Referencias: 8

    Sole family survivorship represents the culmination of loss of multiple, lifelong kin ties. It is more common among those lacking other close kin, signaling the presence of a uniquely vulnerable group of older adults who experience multiple forms of kinlessness. Future research should address how older adults and society at large adapt to kinlessness to ensure successful aging

  • The Roles of Gray Divorce and Subsequent Repartnering for Parent–Adult Child Relationships

    Open AccessI F Lin, Susan L Brown et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2021Citada por: 5Referencias: 6

    The results of our study are consistent with prior research showing that divorce creates a matrifocal tilt in our kinship system. The shifting dynamics of parent-adult child relationships in response to gray divorce and repartnering raise questions about whether gray-divorced parents will be able to rely on their adult children for care as they age

  • Consequences of Later‐Life Divorce and Widowhood for Adult Well‐Being

    Open AccessI F Lin, Susan L BrownARTICLEJournal of Family Theory & Review2020Citada por: 8Referencias: 18

    Later-life marital dissolution increasingly occurs through divorce, not widowhood, and this is reflected in the rising rate of divorce among older adults and gains in life expectancy. Yet the consequences of later-life divorce for individual well-being are poorly understood. Prior work on later-life marital dissolution focuses on bereavement, positing either a short-term, acute grief period or chronic, unrelenting grief. The divorce literature of…

  • The Economic Consequences of Gray Divorce for Women and Men

    Open AccessI F Lin, Susan L Brown et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2020Citada por: 20Referencias: 6

    Objectives Gray divorce, which describes divorce among persons aged 50 and older, is increasingly common reflecting the doubling of the gray divorce rate since 1990. Yet, surprisingly little is known about the consequences of gray divorce and in particular how women and men fare economically during the aftermath. Method Using longitudinal data from the 2004–2014 Health and Retirement Study, we estimated hybrid fixed/random-effects models comparin…

  • Does the Transition to Grandparenthood Deter Gray Divorce? A Test of the Braking Hypothesis

    Open AccessSusan L Brown, I F Lin et al.ARTICLESocial Forces2020Citada por: 4Referencias: 41

    The gray divorce rate, which describes divorce among individuals aged 50 and older, has doubled since 1990. Extending prior research that showed the transition to parenthood has a 'braking effect' on divorce, we examined whether the transition to grandparenthood, an emotionally meaningful midlife event that typically renews midlife marriages, exerts an analogous 'braking effect' on gray divorce. Using panel data from the 1998-2014 Health and Reti…

  • The Roles of Marital Dissolution and Subsequent Repartnering on Loneliness in Later Life

    Open AccessM R Wright, Anna M Hammersmith et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2019Citada por: 6Referencias: 11

    Later-life marital dissolutions increasingly occur through divorce rather than spousal death. Some older adults go on to form new partnerships. Our findings demonstrate the importance of gerontological research widening the lens beyond widowhood to consider the ramifications of later-life divorce and repartnership for well-being

  • Division of Parent Care Among Adult Children

    Open AccessI F Lin, Douglas A Wolf et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2019Citada por: 10Referencias: 2

    This study underscores the importance of using the family systems perspective to better understand adult children's caregiving behavior. Although just one adult child providing care is the most common caregiving arrangement initially, adult children tend to work with their siblings to support parents' aging in place as parents' need for care increases

  • Repartnering Following Gray Divorce

    Open AccessSusan L Brown, I F Lin et al.ARTICLEDemography2019Citada por: 23Referencias: 36

    The doubling of the gray divorce rate (i.e., divorce at age 50 or older) over the past few decades portends growth in later-life repartnering, yet little is known about the mechanisms undergirding decisions to repartner after gray divorce. Using data from the 1998–2014 Health and Retirement Study, we examined women’s and men’s likelihoods of forming a remarriage or cohabiting union following gray divorce by estimating competing risk multinomial l…