【标题】Is Living with In-Laws a Threat to Well-being?Coresidence and Subjective Well-being of Young Adults in Cross-Cultural Comparison

【时间】2018年11月23日（周五）14：00-15：30

【地点】北京大学理科五号楼607

【主讲人】任强 北京大学社会研究中心

【主办方】国家自然科学基金-北京大学管理科学数据中心

【讲座语言】中文

 

Abstract

Living alone, with parents and especially living with in-laws in the transition to adulthood is framed quite differently in bilinear, neolocal kinship cultures than in patrilineal, patrilocal cultures and thus should result in different levels of well-being. Based on data from panel studies, the paper analyzes the level and changes of subjective well-being of adolescents in the age bracket between 16 and the age of 35 in various types of household composition in a cross-cultural comparative perspective with panel studies from 5 societies. Entering into a nuclear household of procration resulted in a strong increase of well-being in the United States, a small increase in Taiwan and Mainland China, but in a strong decrease in Japan. Whereas in-law- and lineage-extensions did not have different effects in the United States, the in-law extension decreased well-being more in Japan, whereas the reverse was true for Mainland China. Entering into an extended household with in-laws in the transition to adulthood decreased only the well-being of young men in the United States, but increased it for young women in Taiwan and especially for young men in Mainland China.

 

Bio

Qiang Ren is an associate Professor and associate director at the Center for Social Research and associate Director of the Institute of Social Science Survey, Peking University. He is a Co-PI of China Family Panel Studies. He obtained a Ph.D. in demography. His research interests include environment and health, population issues.