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Journal of Family Issues / Reciprocity in Intergenerational Support: A Comparison of Chinese and German Adult Daughters Beate Schwarz, Gisela Trommsdorff, Gang Zheng and Shaohua Shi Journal of Family Issues 2010 31: 234 originally published online 1 October 2009 DOI: 10.1177/0192513X0座机电话号码 The online version of this article can be found at: /content/31/2/234 Published by: Additional services and information for Journal of Family Issues can be found at: Email Alerts: /cgi/alerts Subscriptions: /subscriptions Reprints: /journalsReprints.nav Permissions: /journalsPermissions.nav Citations: /content/31/2/234.refs.html Downloaded from at Huazhong University of Science and Technology on November 28, 2010 Journal of Family Issues 31 2 234–256 Reciprocity in ? 2010 SAGE Publications Reprints and permission: http://www Intergenerational ./journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0192513X0座机电话号码 Support: A Comparison of Chinese and German Adult Daughters 1 2 Beate Schwarz, Gisela Trommsdorff, Gang Zheng,3and Shaohua Shi3 Abstract This study investigates how Chinese and German adult daughters evaluate the norm of reciprocity and the unbalanced exchange of support in relation to their aging parents. Women from rural and urban China n 292 and from Germany n 264 have participated in this study. Results show that for the German daughters, differently from rural Chinese daughters, perception of imbalance is strongly related to their intention to support their elderly parents. The results for the urban Chinese daughters are closer to those of the German sample than those of the rural Chinese daughters. The results are discussed in light of theoretical approaches to intergenerational relations taking into account the Confucian concept of filial piety and influences of social change. Keywords intergenerational relationships, cross-cultural comparisons, reciprocity, social support 1University of Basel, Switzerland 2University of Konstanz, Germany 3Chinese Academy of