Journal article
The Comforter: Providing Personal Advice and Emotional Support to Generations in the Family
Abstract
ABSTRACT
This paper presents a novel conceptualization of emotional support in intergenerational families. In a stratified random sample of 458 adults in Hamilton, Ontario, over half the respondents said that there was currently, or had been in the past, a person in their family to whom other family members turned for emotional support and personal advice. In the paper, this person is referred to as the “comforter.” Many …
Authors
Rosenthal CJ
Journal
Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 228–240
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date
1987
DOI
10.1017/s0714980800008448
ISSN
0714-9808