What Makes Chinese Adult Children Behave Differently during Parents’ End of Life: A Discriminant Analysis of Macao Chinese

Wai I. Ng, Sok Leng Che, Xiang Li and Ming Xia Zhu
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Wai I. Ng: Education Department, Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau, Macao SAR 999078, China
Sok Leng Che: Nursing and Health Education Research Centre, Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau, Macao SAR 999078, China
Xiang Li: Education Department, Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau, Macao SAR 999078, China
Ming Xia Zhu: Education Department, Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau, Macao SAR 999078, China

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 20, 1-11

Abstract: The daily practice of filial piety (FP) is well prescribed under the traditional filial norms in the Chinese community. However, exploration of FP practices at the end of parents’ lives is limited. The current study explored the FP representation and good death preferences of Macao Chinese. A cross-sectional web-based survey was conducted and discriminant analysis was used to identify possible predictors of FP representation in the context of parents’ end of life. Results showed that Macao Chinese were inclined to perform most of the filial duties in the last journey of their parents. Among 705 participants, 150 (21.3%) tended to practice authoritarian FP, and 555 (78.7%) tended to practice reciprocal FP. Age, education, religion, and good death preferences were identified as predictors of different FP representation groups. The findings could help clinicians to obtain a preliminary perception of FP representation of Chinese patients and to determine the appropriate approach for end-of-life care from a family perspective.

Keywords: filial piety; end-of-life; general public; Macao; Chinese; discriminant analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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