Ariela Lowenstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 92156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ariela Lowenstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ariela |
| FAMILY NAME | Lowenstein |
| SIGNATURE | LOWENSTEIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 266 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
What drives older adults to continue working after official retirement age
The need to ensure the economic wellbeing and quality of life of those who reach the official retirement age is a matter of concern in the world of social services and in social policy making. Since some working older adults may be forced to retire when they reach the official retirement age while others retire voluntarily, the study is based on a dedicated survey among 508 persons who retired both willingly and unwillingly for good after reachin…
Cessation of Care for Frail Older Adults
Global population aging and increased longevity are making family care a nearly universal experience. Caregiving is a dynamic process that varies over time and in intensity but often takes a physical and emotional toll on carers and may inflict financial costs by attenuating their labor market participation. The study explores the implications of the 'cessation of care' of frail elders by adult (middle-aged and older) kin by comparing two ethnic …
Exclusion from Social Relations in Later Life
Older adults face particular risks of exclusion from social relationships (ESR) and are especially vulnerable to its consequences. However, research so far has been limited to specific dimensions, countries, and time points. In this paper, we examine the prevalence and micro- and macro-level predictors of ESR among older adults (60+) using two waves of data obtained four years apart across 14 European countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and…
The Need for Theory
Intergenerational Family Relations in the Multicultural Society of Israel
Our long-term, scientific collaboration in the research arena of intergenerational family relations directed us to initiate this special issue of the Journal of Intergenerational Relationships (JIR
A German-Israeli Comparison of Informal and Formal Service Use Among Aged 75
Is There a Trade-Off Between Caring for Children and Caring for Parents
Given current fertility trends of delayed age at first birth, along with increased life expectancy, more families will likely face parental care decisions while still handling childcare responsibilities. This paper explores whether families who are facing multiple demands for care of both offspring and parents are substituting one type of care for another. More specifically, it asks whether individuals who are engaged in childcare duties to young…
Intergenerational Support and the Emotional Well-being of Older Jews and Arabs in Israel
This investigation examined the cultural context of intergenerational support among older Jewish and Arab parents living in Israel. The authors hypothesized that support from adult children would be more positively consequential for the psychological well-being of Arab parents than of Jewish parents. The data derived from 375 adults age 65 and older living in Israel. Psychological well-being was measured with positive and negative affect subscale…
The living arrangements of older immigrants from the former Soviet Union
Reciprocity and Exchange in Kin and Nonkin Intergenerational Relationships
The global phenomenon of population aging (Bengtson & Lowenstein, 2003; Lowenstein & Katz, 2010) raises a challenge to intergenerational relationships and addresses the social issues of intergenera
Solidarity Between Generations and Elders' Life Satisfaction
The study examines the role of intergenerational solidarity and filial norms on life satisfaction in old age, comparing older Jews and Arabs in Israel. Three theoretical frameworks served this study: cultural values and beliefs that shape filial norms, intergenerational solidarity paradigm, and modernization theory. Data were collected by structured interviews with 185 Jews and 190 Arabs. Results show that older Arabs were more familistic, receiv…
Rethinking theoretical and methodological issues in intergenerational family relations research
This paper introduces some key theoretical and methodological developments in the study of intergenerational family relations. It draws on observations that a number of social issues are emerging that have an intergenerational dimension, that there is growing recognition that to study adult ageing one has also to study intergenerational relationships, and that a new architecture for social relations is beginning to take shape in the wake of demog…
Exploring generational intelligence as a model for examining the process of intergenerational relationships
The purpose of this article is to examine an emerging model of intergenerational relationships that takes as its starting point the degree to which it is possible to place oneself in the position of a person of another age, the ‘age-other’. The paper explores an experiential approach that draws on both sociological thinking on ‘generational consciousness’ and a debate in family gerontology on the relationships between conflict, solidarity and amb…
Do Religious Children Care More and Provide More Care to Older Parents? A Study of Filial Norms and Behaviors across Five Nations
Older Parent-Child Relationships in Six Developed Nations
Intergenerational solidarity and ambivalence paradigms suggest that emotional relationships between generations consist of both positive and negative sentiments. We applied latent class analysis to measures of affection and conflict in 2,698 older parent-child relationships in 6 developed nations: England, Germany, Israel, Norway, Spain, and the United States (Southern California). The best fitting model consisted of 4 latent classes distributed …
Privatization Trends in Welfare Services and Their Impact upon Israel as a Welfare State
Do Religious Children Care More and Provide More Care for Older Parents? A Study of Filial Norms and Behaviors across Five Nations
Religiosity has been largely overlooked by many studies on intergenerational support despite growing evidence to its significant role in shaping parent-child relationship. This study aims (1) to examine the congruence between commitment to eldercare and actual parental care in five countries; and (2) to investigate the role of religiosity in predicting the development of filial norms and the enactment of such norms to actual supportive behavior t…
Reciprocity in Parent–Child Exchange and Life Satisfaction among the Elderly
This study explores the role of intergenerational exchange relationships in the life satisfaction of a cross‐national sample of older people. Specifically, it replicates and extends the study by Lee, Netzer, and Coward (1995) , which examined the effects of aid exchanged between generations—older parents and their adult children. Social exchange and equity theories serve as the theoretical frameworks for the present research. The current research…
Grandmothers', Mothers' and Granddaughters' Perceptions of Grandparenthood
The aim of the present study was to assess the meaning of grandparenthood in grandparent-parent-grandchild triads, and to examine its congruence between generations. Three types of relations were found: (1) the congruent-strongly connected relationship, characterized by a reciprocal and nurturing relation; (2) the congruentnon-connected relationship, characterized by an agreement among all members regarding the problematic and dissociated relatio…
Filial norms and family support in a comparative cross-national context
The article aims to answer three questions: How strong are the bonds of obligations and expectations between generations? To what extent are different types of support exchanged between generations? What are the impacts of filial norms, opportunity structures and emotional bonds on the exchange of inter-generational support between adult children and older parents across societies? It reports findings from the five-country (Norway, England, Germa…
Intergenerational solidarity and the family–welfare state balance
Mediation across generations
Living arrangements, family solidarity and life satisfaction of two generations of immigrants in Israel
This paper reports a study of the relationships between shared and separate living arrangements and the life satisfaction of two generations of migrants from the former Soviet Union to Israel, adult children (the younger generation) and their elderly parents. An attempt was made to identify the social, familial and personal factors that affect life satisfaction, and special attention was devoted to inter-generational family solidarity and to info…
Solidarity and conflicts in coresidence of three-generational immigrant families from the former Soviet Union
Adult children of elderly parents who remarry
This research paper from Israel examines damaging family reactions to later‐life remarriage. It describes a study based on qualitative data from interviews with 17 children of elderly parents who had remarried and later reported their adult children to the social service agencies as abusers. An analysis of the interviews shows that the main cause of the abuse was financial and involved matters of inheritance, wills and the distribution of assets.…
Filial norms and family support in a comparative cross-national context
The article aims to answer three questions: How strong are the bonds of obligations and expectations between generations? To what extent are different types of support exchanged between generations? What are the impacts of filial norms, opportunity structures and emotional bonds on the exchange of inter-generational support between adult children and older parents across societies? It reports findings from the five-country (Norway, England, Germa…
Reciprocity in Parent–Child Exchange and Life Satisfaction among the Elderly
This study explores the role of intergenerational exchange relationships in the life satisfaction of a cross‐national sample of older people. Specifically, it replicates and extends the study by Lee, Netzer, and Coward (1995) , which examined the effects of aid exchanged between generations—older parents and their adult children. Social exchange and equity theories serve as the theoretical frameworks for the present research. The current research…
Older Parent-Child Relationships in Six Developed Nations
Intergenerational solidarity and ambivalence paradigms suggest that emotional relationships between generations consist of both positive and negative sentiments. We applied latent class analysis to measures of affection and conflict in 2,698 older parent-child relationships in 6 developed nations: England, Germany, Israel, Norway, Spain, and the United States (Southern California). The best fitting model consisted of 4 latent classes distributed …
Do Religious Children Care More and Provide More Care for Older Parents? A Study of Filial Norms and Behaviors across Five Nations
Religiosity has been largely overlooked by many studies on intergenerational support despite growing evidence to its significant role in shaping parent-child relationship. This study aims (1) to examine the congruence between commitment to eldercare and actual parental care in five countries; and (2) to investigate the role of religiosity in predicting the development of filial norms and the enactment of such norms to actual supportive behavior t…
Adjustment of Older Soviet Immigrant Parents and Their Adult Children Residing in Shared Households
Adjustment of Older Soviet Immigrant Parents and Their Adult Children Residing in Shared Households: An Intergenerational Comparison* This study examined the impact of sociodemographic, personal, and familial resources on the adjustment of older Soviet immigrants and their adult children living in multigenerational households. The sample included 200 respondents from 100 families who arrived in Israel between 1989 and 1995. Intergenerational soli…
Living arrangements, family solidarity and life satisfaction of two generations of immigrants in Israel
This paper reports a study of the relationships between shared and separate living arrangements and the life satisfaction of two generations of migrants from the former Soviet Union to Israel, adult children (the younger generation) and their elderly parents. An attempt was made to identify the social, familial and personal factors that affect life satisfaction, and special attention was devoted to inter-generational family solidarity and to info…
Rural Arab Families Coping with Caregiving
This research examines the coping patterns of the rural Arab family in caring for a chronically ill elderly relative. The Arab community in Israel is in transition as a result of modernization with changes occurring in the traditional family structure, family norms and living arrangements. This study was conceptualized within the framework of intergenerational solidarity versus ambivalence and utilized a qualitative approach based on the phenomen…
Mediation across generations
Solidarity and conflicts in coresidence of three-generational immigrant families from the former Soviet Union
Coping with Stress
Coping with the nonnormative stressful event of husband's incarceration is investigated. The study describes coping patterns of prisoners' wives and identifies the predicting variables affecting a wife's successful coping ability to her husband's imprisonment. The investigation used the conceptual model developed by Burr (1973), based on Hill's (1949) ABCX formulation within a life-cycle framework. The discussion is based on data collected throug…
Exploring generational intelligence as a model for examining the process of intergenerational relationships
The purpose of this article is to examine an emerging model of intergenerational relationships that takes as its starting point the degree to which it is possible to place oneself in the position of a person of another age, the ‘age-other’. The paper explores an experiential approach that draws on both sociological thinking on ‘generational consciousness’ and a debate in family gerontology on the relationships between conflict, solidarity and amb…
Intergenerational Support and the Emotional Well-being of Older Jews and Arabs in Israel
This investigation examined the cultural context of intergenerational support among older Jewish and Arab parents living in Israel. The authors hypothesized that support from adult children would be more positively consequential for the psychological well-being of Arab parents than of Jewish parents. The data derived from 375 adults age 65 and older living in Israel. Psychological well-being was measured with positive and negative affect subscale…
Solidarity Between Generations and Elders' Life Satisfaction
The study examines the role of intergenerational solidarity and filial norms on life satisfaction in old age, comparing older Jews and Arabs in Israel. Three theoretical frameworks served this study: cultural values and beliefs that shape filial norms, intergenerational solidarity paradigm, and modernization theory. Data were collected by structured interviews with 185 Jews and 190 Arabs. Results show that older Arabs were more familistic, receiv…
Is There a Trade-Off Between Caring for Children and Caring for Parents
Given current fertility trends of delayed age at first birth, along with increased life expectancy, more families will likely face parental care decisions while still handling childcare responsibilities. This paper explores whether families who are facing multiple demands for care of both offspring and parents are substituting one type of care for another. More specifically, it asks whether individuals who are engaged in childcare duties to young…
Rethinking theoretical and methodological issues in intergenerational family relations research
This paper introduces some key theoretical and methodological developments in the study of intergenerational family relations. It draws on observations that a number of social issues are emerging that have an intergenerational dimension, that there is growing recognition that to study adult ageing one has also to study intergenerational relationships, and that a new architecture for social relations is beginning to take shape in the wake of demog…
The relation of widow's needs and resources to perceived health and depression
Intergenerational Family Relations in the Multicultural Society of Israel
Our long-term, scientific collaboration in the research arena of intergenerational family relations directed us to initiate this special issue of the Journal of Intergenerational Relationships (JIR
The living arrangements of older immigrants from the former Soviet Union
Grandmothers', Mothers' and Granddaughters' Perceptions of Grandparenthood
The aim of the present study was to assess the meaning of grandparenthood in grandparent-parent-grandchild triads, and to examine its congruence between generations. Three types of relations were found: (1) the congruent-strongly connected relationship, characterized by a reciprocal and nurturing relation; (2) the congruentnon-connected relationship, characterized by an agreement among all members regarding the problematic and dissociated relatio…
Caring for parents with Alzheimer's
Reciprocity and Exchange in Kin and Nonkin Intergenerational Relationships
The global phenomenon of population aging (Bengtson & Lowenstein, 2003; Lowenstein & Katz, 2010) raises a challenge to intergenerational relationships and addresses the social issues of intergenera
Coping with Stress
Coping with the nonnormative stressful event of husband's incarceration is investigated. The study describes coping patterns of prisoners' wives and identifies the predicting variables affecting a wife's successful coping ability to her husband's imprisonment. The investigation used the conceptual model developed by Burr (1973), based on Hill's (1949) ABCX formulation within a life-cycle framework. The discussion is based on data collected throug…
The relation of widow's needs and resources to perceived health and depression
Adjustment to Loss of Spouse as a Multivariate Construct
Interview data collected in 1985–86 from a stratified random sample of widows under the age of fifty-four ( n = 150) in Israel were analyzed in an attempt to answer the following question: is adjustment to widowhood a univariate or a multivariate construct? Using four indicators for adjustment to widowhood—functioning in everyday living, depression level, health status, and life satisfaction—factors that may affect adjustment to widowhood are exa…
Loneliness and Unmet Needs of Intimacy and Sexuality—Their Effect on the Phenomenon of Spousal Abuse in Second Marriages of the Widowed Elderly
An exploratory study on elder abuse conducted in northern Israel during 1996-97 identified approximately 270 elderly who had been victims of verbal, emotional and/or physical abuse by their spouses and/or adult children. Of this group, 42 elderly victims of spousal abuse were identified, including 12 widowed elderly who were remarried. This last group was selected as a sample for a qualitative study, examining the reasons for spousal abuse among …
Caring for parents with Alzheimer's
Adjustment of Older Soviet Immigrant Parents and Their Adult Children Residing in Shared Households
Adjustment of Older Soviet Immigrant Parents and Their Adult Children Residing in Shared Households: An Intergenerational Comparison* This study examined the impact of sociodemographic, personal, and familial resources on the adjustment of older Soviet immigrants and their adult children living in multigenerational households. The sample included 200 respondents from 100 families who arrived in Israel between 1989 and 1995. Intergenerational soli…
Adult children of elderly parents who remarry
This research paper from Israel examines damaging family reactions to later‐life remarriage. It describes a study based on qualitative data from interviews with 17 children of elderly parents who had remarried and later reported their adult children to the social service agencies as abusers. An analysis of the interviews shows that the main cause of the abuse was financial and involved matters of inheritance, wills and the distribution of assets.…
Rural Arab Families Coping with Caregiving
This research examines the coping patterns of the rural Arab family in caring for a chronically ill elderly relative. The Arab community in Israel is in transition as a result of modernization with changes occurring in the traditional family structure, family norms and living arrangements. This study was conceptualized within the framework of intergenerational solidarity versus ambivalence and utilized a qualitative approach based on the phenomen…
Solidarity and conflicts in coresidence of three-generational immigrant families from the former Soviet Union
Intergenerational solidarity and the family–welfare state balance
Mediation across generations
Living arrangements, family solidarity and life satisfaction of two generations of immigrants in Israel
This paper reports a study of the relationships between shared and separate living arrangements and the life satisfaction of two generations of migrants from the former Soviet Union to Israel, adult children (the younger generation) and their elderly parents. An attempt was made to identify the social, familial and personal factors that affect life satisfaction, and special attention was devoted to inter-generational family solidarity and to info…
Filial norms and family support in a comparative cross-national context
The article aims to answer three questions: How strong are the bonds of obligations and expectations between generations? To what extent are different types of support exchanged between generations? What are the impacts of filial norms, opportunity structures and emotional bonds on the exchange of inter-generational support between adult children and older parents across societies? It reports findings from the five-country (Norway, England, Germa…
Reciprocity in Parent–Child Exchange and Life Satisfaction among the Elderly
This study explores the role of intergenerational exchange relationships in the life satisfaction of a cross‐national sample of older people. Specifically, it replicates and extends the study by Lee, Netzer, and Coward (1995) , which examined the effects of aid exchanged between generations—older parents and their adult children. Social exchange and equity theories serve as the theoretical frameworks for the present research. The current research…
Grandmothers', Mothers' and Granddaughters' Perceptions of Grandparenthood
The aim of the present study was to assess the meaning of grandparenthood in grandparent-parent-grandchild triads, and to examine its congruence between generations. Three types of relations were found: (1) the congruent-strongly connected relationship, characterized by a reciprocal and nurturing relation; (2) the congruentnon-connected relationship, characterized by an agreement among all members regarding the problematic and dissociated relatio…
Privatization Trends in Welfare Services and Their Impact upon Israel as a Welfare State
Do Religious Children Care More and Provide More Care for Older Parents? A Study of Filial Norms and Behaviors across Five Nations
Religiosity has been largely overlooked by many studies on intergenerational support despite growing evidence to its significant role in shaping parent-child relationship. This study aims (1) to examine the congruence between commitment to eldercare and actual parental care in five countries; and (2) to investigate the role of religiosity in predicting the development of filial norms and the enactment of such norms to actual supportive behavior t…
Do Religious Children Care More and Provide More Care to Older Parents? A Study of Filial Norms and Behaviors across Five Nations
Older Parent-Child Relationships in Six Developed Nations
Intergenerational solidarity and ambivalence paradigms suggest that emotional relationships between generations consist of both positive and negative sentiments. We applied latent class analysis to measures of affection and conflict in 2,698 older parent-child relationships in 6 developed nations: England, Germany, Israel, Norway, Spain, and the United States (Southern California). The best fitting model consisted of 4 latent classes distributed …
Rethinking theoretical and methodological issues in intergenerational family relations research
This paper introduces some key theoretical and methodological developments in the study of intergenerational family relations. It draws on observations that a number of social issues are emerging that have an intergenerational dimension, that there is growing recognition that to study adult ageing one has also to study intergenerational relationships, and that a new architecture for social relations is beginning to take shape in the wake of demog…
Exploring generational intelligence as a model for examining the process of intergenerational relationships
The purpose of this article is to examine an emerging model of intergenerational relationships that takes as its starting point the degree to which it is possible to place oneself in the position of a person of another age, the ‘age-other’. The paper explores an experiential approach that draws on both sociological thinking on ‘generational consciousness’ and a debate in family gerontology on the relationships between conflict, solidarity and amb…
The living arrangements of older immigrants from the former Soviet Union
Reciprocity and Exchange in Kin and Nonkin Intergenerational Relationships
The global phenomenon of population aging (Bengtson & Lowenstein, 2003; Lowenstein & Katz, 2010) raises a challenge to intergenerational relationships and addresses the social issues of intergenera
Solidarity Between Generations and Elders' Life Satisfaction
The study examines the role of intergenerational solidarity and filial norms on life satisfaction in old age, comparing older Jews and Arabs in Israel. Three theoretical frameworks served this study: cultural values and beliefs that shape filial norms, intergenerational solidarity paradigm, and modernization theory. Data were collected by structured interviews with 185 Jews and 190 Arabs. Results show that older Arabs were more familistic, receiv…
A German-Israeli Comparison of Informal and Formal Service Use Among Aged 75
Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (27 works) · Psychology (26 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (14 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Demography (10 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works)