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Meaning of grandparenthood — do concerns about time and mortality matter?
Author(s)	Helene H Fung, Christy M Y Siu, Winnie C W Choy
Journal title	Ageing International, vol 30, no 2, Spring 2005
Pages	pp 122-146
Source	http://www.transactionpub.com
Keywords	Grandparents ; Family relationships ; Anxiety ; Death ; Social surveys ; Hong Kong.
Annotation	The finitude of life not only arouses death anxiety, but it also implies that the time for an individual is limited. This study tested whether older people facing the finitude of life would be motivated by both death anxiety and limited time perspective to seek meaning in one type of close relationship, grandparenthood. The study sample included 156 Chinese grandparents residing in Hong Kong. Results revealed that grandparents who perceived a greater lack of future time derived higher levels of meaning from grandparenthood. Moreover, a weak relationship was found suggesting that grandparents who had a higher level of death anxiety were less likely to perceive not being a grandparent as a loss. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-070503236 A
Classmark	SW: DS:SJ: ENP: CW: 3F: 7DR
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