The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of filial responsibility attitude on the caregiving burden of the daughters-in law who live with their parents-in-law. This study also examines the differences in the relationships between filial resp...
The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of filial responsibility attitude on the caregiving burden of the daughters-in law who live with their parents-in-law. This study also examines the differences in the relationships between filial responsibility attitude and caregiving burden by the birth-order of the husband of these daughters-in-law. In this study, the birth order is considered as a indicator through which we could infer the changes of caregiving, filial norm in Korea. For these purposes, the data is gathered from 502 daughters-in-law who lives with at least one of their parents-in-law in rural area, using structured questionnaires. The statistical methods used for data analysis are descriptive statistics, t-test, simple correlation, factor analysis, and multiple regression analysis using SPSSpc+ program. The major findings of this study are as follows. The overall level of caregiving burden of caregivers is lower than middle point in the scale, thus showing that the respondents of this study experience relatively low level of caregiving burden. There are differences in the factors influencing the level of caregiver burden by the birth order of husbands of the respondents. The level of the general responsibility, marital status of elderly have significant impact on the care-giving burden among the eldest daughters-in-law. On the other hand, caregiving burden of the respondents whose husbands are later born sons are affected by the coresidence motive and the first son`s responsibility as well as the general responsibility. The result obtained from the study confirm that the filial responsibility attitude play an important roles in terms of explaining the level of care-giving burden. Interesting finding is that the relationship between the filial responsibility attitude and caregiver burden is different according to the birth order of the husbands of the respondents. It suggests that there is some continuity in terms of the traditional caregiving norm tied with son`s birth order in the process and outcome of caregiving.