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| Grandparent identity, intergenerational family identity, and well-being | | Author(s) | Donald C Reitzes, Elizabeth J Mutran |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 59B, no 4, July 2004 |
| Pages | pp S213-S219 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Grandparents ; Parents ; Attitude ; Family relationships ; Well being ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | A new grandparent identity measure is constructed that allows us to compare grandparent identity meanings with the meanings of other adult identities, and to investigate the relationships between identities and well-being. Data were collected in 1997 from 203 older grandmothers and grandfathers living in Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina metropolitan area. Grandparent and parent identity meanings are measured with an introductory identifier focusing attention on being a grandparent or a parent, followed by a set of 10 adjective pairs to capture identity meanings. Intergenerational family identity combined grandparent and parent identity meanings. Self-esteem and depressive symptoms serve as two indicators of well-being. The authors find that there is no significant difference between grandparent and parent identity meanings, and that men and women were more positive about their grandparent identities than they are about other adult identity meanings. Further, grandparent identity is significantly related to well-being when it is the only identity in the model, but not when parent identity is included in another model. Finally, intergenerational family identity is positively related to well-being. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041130227 A |
| Classmark | SW: SR: DP: DS:SJ: D:F:5HH: 3F: 7T |
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