TITLE:
Influence of Living with Parents on Marrieds’ Happiness
AUTHORS:
Shan-Ying Chu
KEYWORDS:
Happiness; Living with Parents; Married
JOURNAL NAME:
Modern Economy,
Vol.5 No.1,
January
14,
2014
ABSTRACT:
To enrich literature, this paper investigates influence
of living with parents on marrieds’ happiness. It is an important issue in
Chinese filial piety culture but rarely discussed. Data are drawn from Taiwan
Social Change Survey in year 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2005. Empirical
findings from ordered probit models show various associations between living
with own/spouse’s parents and happiness of married women/men. Living with mother-in-law
degrades married women’s happiness but it promotes married men’s happiness. Living
with own mother lowers down married daughter’s happiness but
married men’s happiness increases when living with own parents. These results
echo to theoretical backgrounds about altruism, demonstration effect, and
good/bad relation between married children and parents.