STEPPARENT-CHILD INTERGENERATIONAL SOLIDARITY IN 11 YEARS: MODERATING ROLE OF RELIGIOUS DISCORDANCE

摘要

Research has documented that religiosity is associated with filial responsibility directly and indirectly through familism. However, we know little about whether these associations produce different outcomes between biological and step-adult children. Therefore, we examined the association between religiosity and filial responsibility and the mediating role of familism on the abovementioned association for biological and step-adult children using the Longitudinal Study of Generations (LSOG). We selected 527 biological adult children and 83 step-adult children from the fourth generation (G4) in Wave 8 (2005). Models include controls for participants’ age, race, gender, and education. Results of multiple group analysis show that religiosity was positively associated with filial responsibility among biological adult children and that familism fully mediated this association. Among step-adult children, although religiosity was positively associated with familism, neither religiosity nor familism was associated with filial responsibility. Heterogeneous and homogeneous characteristics of biological and step-adult children’s religious contexts are discussed.