Part of this study consisted of designing and validating a scale for measuring Intergenerational Family Solidarity (IFS). In addition to the classic dimensions of solidarity, a systematic dimension was also incorporated, and the scale was validated on the basis of 201 questionnaires.
It was presented to the scientific community at the 8th Congress of the European Society on Family Relations in Dortmund (Germany), which focused primarily on changes in family relations, as well as the impact of gender and the different family generations on trends such as globalisation, migration, the neo-liberal transformation of labour, individualisation and demographic ageing within the content of the decline of the Welfare State.
Prominent speakers included professors Dieter Ferring (University of Luxembourg), Gunhild Hagestad (NOVA, Norway), Helma Lutz (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany), Tina Miller (Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom) and Eric Widmer (University of Geneva, Switzerland).