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| Grandmothers, caregiving, and family functioning | | Author(s) | Carol M Musil, Camille B Warner, Jaclene A Zauszniewski |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 61B, no 2, March 2006 |
| Pages | pp S89-S98 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Grandmothers ; Grandparents as carers ; Family relationships ; Stress ; Mathematical models ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | McCubbin's Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment and Adaptation (2001) was used to examine how demographic factors, family stress, grandmother resourcefulness, support, and role reward affect perceptions of family functioning for grandmothers raising grandchildren, grandmothers living in multigenerational households, and grandmothers with no caregiving responsibilities. A sample of 486 grandmothers completed a postal questionnaire. Structural equation modelling was used to test the effects of demographic factors, family stressful life events and strain, grandmothers' resourcefulness, subjective and instrumental support, and role reward on perceptions of family functioning for each grandmother group. Differences in the measurement and structural models between of grandmother groups were evaluated using multi-sample analysis, and the model was tested on the full sample, coding for caregiver status. The model did not differ significantly by grandmother group. There was general support for the resiliency model and equivalence of the model across grandmother groups. Less support, resourcefulness and reward, and more intra-family strain and stressful family life events contributed to perceptions of worse family functioning. The importance of quality of family functioning for grandmothers in all types of families is demonstrated. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070504204 A |
| Classmark | SW2: P6:SW: DS:SJ: QNH: 3LM: 7T |
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