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| Are religious grandparents more involved grandparents? | | Author(s) | Valarie King, Glen H Elder Jr |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 54B, no 6, November 1999 |
| Pages | pp S317-328 |
| Keywords | Grandparents ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Personal relationships ; Grandchildren ; Variance analysis ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The extent to, and ways in which, various aspects of grandparents' religiousness are related to involvement with their grandchildren are tested using a series of bivariate and multivariate regression models. Multiple measures both of religiousness and of grandparent involvement are used. The study also examines factors that potentially confound, link, or explain the connection between religious involvement and grandparenting (e.g. demographic factors, health, community involvement, traditional values, ties to others). The sample of 585 grandparents comes from two related studies of rural families in the US: the Iowa Youth and Families Project, and the Iowa Single Parent Project. Overall, results indicate that religious grandparents are more involved grandparents, and this involvement is explained in part by their generally greater involvement in all types of family and social ties: religious grandparents are also more likely to be enmeshed in social ties to others. The implications of these findings are discussed in the light of previous research that finds little influence of religion. The future of grandparent involvement is also discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000306227 A |
| Classmark | SW: EX: DS: SW5: 3YA: 7T |
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