Abstract
This investigation concerned the relationship between the quality of adult daughters' experiences and current relationships with their mothers, and indices of daughter's well-being (life satisfaction and depressive symptoms). A cross-sectional sample of 415 daughters (single; or married with or without children) completed questionnaires. The results showed that married and unemployed daughters felt closer to their mothers than did unmarried or employed daughters. The association between the quality of daughters' relationships with their mothers and their psychological well-being depended on daughter's marital, parental and employment status. Among unmarried daughters, a close mother-daughter relationship was associated with reports of high life satisfaction and lack of depressive symptoms. The relationship between mother-daughter closeness and depressive symtoms among married daughters was found only for unemployed women. Excessive care seeking and care giving to their mother had a significant negative association with the psychological well-being of married daughters without children, whether or not they were employed.
