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Resource Exchanges Between Mothers and Adolescent Children  

Lee, Su-Ni (아주대학교 사회학과)
Kim, Hyun-Ju (중앙대학교 청소년학과)
Lee, Yeo-Bong (강남대학교 교양학부)
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Korea journal of population studies / v.29, no.1, 2006 , pp. 97-131 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study analyses the relationship between mothers and adolescent children in current Korean society from an exchange perspective. Utilizing the 6 types of resources, I. e., service, goods, money, information, status, and affection, suggested by Foa et. al. and the distinction between positive exchange (rewards) and negative exchange (punishments), it explores what resources are exchanged, how the resources exchanged are valued by each party, whether the exchange is symmetrical or asymmetrical, and if gender and age of the child affects the exchange. A survey was conducted to 150 children--from middle school aged to college going, and their cohabiting mothers in the metropolitan Seoul. The overall findings are as follows: Positive exchanges are dominant over negative exchanges. The exchange of positive exchanges occur asymmetrically within each resource type, with the exception of affection which is exchanged in a more equal term. In general, children receive positive resources more often, but mothers value the resources given by their children more highly. Negative resources are exchanged in more symmetrical terms. Negative resources exchanged more frequently tend to have weaker negative valence. Daughters maintain a more intensive exchange relation with their mothers than sons do, and this pattern is especially prominent in the exchanges of information and affection. The age of the child has a weak effect on the exchange.
Keywords
adolescent children; mother-child relations; exchange; resource; reward; punishment; exchange value;
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