Triangular Model of Socio-Economic and Psychological Well-Being Among Left Behind Parents

Abstract

The current study aims to examine the social, economic and the psychological well-being in the left behind elderly parents whose children have migrated to the other countries. The objectives of the study were to seek out the role of children migration in the left behind elderly people, to carve out how the migration of the children have in[1]fluenced the psychological well-being in parents, to highlight the role of remittances in the economic well-being of the parents and to examine the reciprocal relationship among social, psychological and the economic well-being. The cross-sectional research design was used to measure the present construct. The study used questionnaire to collect the data. Researcher employed the multistage sampling technique to obtain the data from the 400 hundred parents whose children had migrated. The study concluded that high level of social well-being has the negative effect over the psychological well-being. Similarly, remittances from the children yield economic well-being in the elderly left behind parents. The study suggested that there is need for institutional support from the state to enhance the social, psychological and the economic support for the elderly left behind parents.