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Psychological well-being of black and white grandmothers raising grandchildren — examination of a two-factor model
Author(s)	Rachel A Pruchno, Dorothy McKenney
Journal title	Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 57B, no 5, September 2002
Pages	pp P444-P452
Keywords	Black people ; White people ; Grandparents as carers ; Grandmothers ; Well being ; Grandchildren ; Mathematical models ; United States of America.
Annotation	A theoretical model predicting the positive and negative affect of caregiving grandmothers was tested with a sample of 867 grandmothers caring for a grandchild in households that did not include either of the grandchild's parents. Results confirm that the principles guiding a 2-factor model of psychological well-being operate at the level of subjective role appraisals. Unique predictors of positive and negative affect, as well as unique predictors of caregiving satisfaction and burden were identified. The stability of the model for black and white grandmothers highlights the similarity of the experience across race.(RH).
Accession Number	CPA-021107209 A
Classmark	TKE: TKA: P6:SW: SW2: D:F:5HH: SW5: 3LM: 7T
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