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Parenting stress
— a comparison of grandmother caretakers and mothers | | Author(s) | Carol M Musil, JoAnne M Youngblut, Sukhee Ahn |
| Journal title | Journal of Mental Health and Aging, vol 8 no 3, Fall 2002 |
| Pages | pp 197-210 |
| Keywords | Grandmothers ; Grandparents as carers ; Grandchildren ; Mother ; Children ; Stress ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Grandmothers who care for a grandchild encounter similar stresses to those faced by parents raising their own children. This study examined the main and interaction effects of caretaker status, employment, and race on parenting stress, and whether these factors affect parenting stress in a sample of 86 grandmothers raising grandchildren and a sample of 86 mothers of pre-school children, matched for women's partner status, race and employment. Grandmothers raising grandchildren reported more overall parenting stress and parental distress than mothers. Non-employed women reported more negative perceptions of their children and more difficult interactions with them. When controlling for contextual variables, grandmother caretakers showed greater parenting distress, but employment was not related to parenting stress. Being Caucasian and caretaking of older children affected overall parenting stress, parent-child interactions, and perceptions of one's children. The effects of outside influences of grandmothers' stress needs to be considered in future research. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030515202 A |
| Classmark | SW2: P6:SW: SW5: SRM: SBC: QNH: 48: 7T |
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