Functions
of family have been replaced by modern system and the changes of
inter-generation resources impacts pattern and relationships of
traditional family system as the changing of society, this caused the
tradition of children caring their parents facing challenges .The purpose
of this study focus on analyzing the inter-influences between the
variances of personal background, conviction of filial piety and behaviors
of filial piety. Furthermore, this study also wants to discuss whether if
there’s any significant differences between different generations of adult
child’s conviction and behavior of filial piety and the relevance between
the conviction and behaviors of filial piety. This research’s data base on
the survey of “the overall change of Taiwan society, 2011 ” Episode 6-2 “
Family Episode”. The number of interviewed sample is 878 which was chosen
from the survey’s sample of their parents still alive .The Statistic
methods of descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and regression
analysis are been used to analysis collected data and the study results
show as below: 1.Adult
children still have and follow the filial piety. For the conviction of
filial piety, they treat a higher value of “reciprocal filial piety” and
provide the “emotional care” on the behavior aspect. 2.“Education”,
“ Urbanization of living place”, “parent-child relationship” are the same
factors of “reciprocal filial piety” and “authoritarian filial piety” that
influence personal background variance. 3.There’s no
significant difference on “reciprocal filial piety” and “authoritarian
filial piety” between different generations of adult children. 4.These
personal background variance - “Age”, “Education” , “Income” , “living
arrangements with parents” and “parent-child relationship” are affects to
each individual’s filial piety behaviors. 5.There’s no
significant difference on “money support” and “physical assistance” filial
piety behaviors between different generations of adult children. However,
the “money support” behavior shows more on the “Generation X”and
“Generation Y” then the “The Baby Boomers” and this exposed the difference
of generation. 6.The
conviction and behavior of filial piety are positively correlation, the
higher conviction of filial piety shows more behaviors of filial piety. 7.“Physical
assistance” is influenced by the behavior of “reciprocal filial piety” and
the “emotional care” is influenced behaviors of both “reciprocal filial
piety” and “authoritarian filial piety”.