Summary information
Study title
Mothers and Grown-up Children 2000
Creator
Räty, Reetta (Helsingin Sanomat. Weekly supplement Nyt)
Study number / PID
FSD1283 (FSD)
urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1283 (URN)
10.60686/t-fsd1283 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.
Abstract
An online survey conducted by a Finnish newspaper. The data consist of responses to open-ended questions about mothers' relations with their adult children. The mothers were asked how far away their children lived, and how often and in what ways the mothers were in contact with them. Helping adult children, as well as reasons for doing or not doing so were studied. The respondents were asked whether they talked about sex with their children, whether their children accused them of anything, what they thought was difficult in being a mother, and whether they would have raised their children differently at the time of the survey if they had been given a chance to do it again. Possible conflicts with children and their causes were investigated. The respondents were also asked what adult children need their mothers for. The dataset is only available in Finnish.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
07/04/2000 - 27/04/2000
Country
Finland
Time dimension
Cross-section
Analysis unit
Individual
Universe
Female readers of the Helsingin Sanomat weekly supplement Nyt who had adult children
Sampling procedure
Non-probability: Availability
Kind of data
Qualitative
Data collection mode
Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)
Access
Publisher
Finnish Social Science Data Archive
Publication year
2003
Terms of data access
The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.
Related publications
- Veistola, Kaarina (2008). Äiti on aina äiti - tutkimus aikuisen lapsen äitiydestä. Jyväskylä: Jyväskylän yliopisto. Sosiaalityön pro gradu -tutkielma.
- Räty, Reetta (2000). Ikuinen emo. Helsingin Sanomat, Viikkoliite Nyt 19/2000, 12-17.
- Hiilamo, Heikki & Hiilamo, Kirsi (2007). Apua? Lähimmäisyyden perusteet. Helsinki: Kirjapaja.
- Elo, Johanna (2008). Äiti on äiti aina vaan. Aikuisten lasten äidit ja äidin kategoria. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto. Sosiaalipsykologian pro gradu -tutkielma.
- Ritva Nätkin (2013) Lasten aikuistuminen ja äitiyden varjot. Teoksessa Elina Virokannas & Sanna Väyrynen (toim.) Varjoja naiseudessa. Kuopio: UNIpress, 18-51.
- Nätkin, Ritva (2014). Sukupuoleen ja sukupolveen kasvatetut - äitien reflektioita lastensa aikuistumisesta. Nuorisotutkimus, 32. vuosikerta, 1/2014, 18-33.
- Saarreharju, Maiju (2021). Turvarievusta perinneäitiin: sidokset äitien ja aikuisten lasten välillä. Rovaniemi: Lapin yliopisto. Sosiologian pro gradu -tutkielma.