ATTACHMENT AMONG ADULT CHILDREN AND THEIR INSTITUTIONALIZED PARENTS

Structural equation analysis using data front 424 adult children with parents living in long-term care facilities indicated that the attachm ent experienced by adult children for their institutionalized parents, uas predicted from child's report of parent's mood and child's sense o f guilt regarding his/her parent. Parent's mood was predicted by paren t's health, and child's sense of guilt was predicted by the amount of help provided to the parent by the adult child. Results are interprete d in the context of theories of attachment.