Effects of Perceived Filial Behavior Standard and Actual Filial Behavior Level on City Middle-Aged Children's Filial Piety

通过访谈和实验研究发现,城市中年子女将同龄人中多数人的赡养孝行视为孝行标准。他们认为选择机构养老方式赡养父母的孝行水平较低,需要采用补偿视角和获益视角的努力获取与同龄人横向比较的心理平衡,通过降低自己的未来孝道期待获取纵向上的代际互惠平衡。这些人当前感知的孝行标准虽然较高,但预期孝行标准则呈下降趋势,于是其赡养老人的行为意愿、相关情感和认知评价都会通过接受机构养老来使孝道观发生变化。

Through semi-structured interview and quasi-experimental design, we found that the majority of peers' filial behavior was conceived as behavior standard by middle-aged children. When they chose to send their elderly parents to nursing home, they thought that their filial behavior level was below the perceived standard. To avoid inner imbalance, they adjusted filial piety to realize the balance of horizontal comparison through supplement cognition or reduction cognition. The stability of reduction cognition depended on middle-aged children's compromise to filial expectations on children among three generations. They felt that the current standard was high, but on the other hand, though it would decline over time, and they would accept it by changing their behavioral intention of sending elderly parents to nursing home and correspondingly emotional and cognitive evaluations.

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