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Depressive symptoms among grandparents raising grandchildren
— the impact of participation in multiple roles | | Author(s) | Lindsay A Baker, Merril Silverstein |
| Journal title | Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, vol 6, no 3, 2008 |
| Publisher | The Haworth Press, 2008 |
| Pages | pp 285-304 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Grandparents ; Depression ; Social roles ; Grandparents as carers ; Grandchildren ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Using the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS), this research examines well-being among grandparents raising grandchildren during middle to late life, specifically looking at how other roles in which a grandparent is participating (such as worker, volunteer, parent, or caregiver) may influence depressive symptoms among grandparent caregivers. Results indicate that grandparents who have recently begun raising a grandchild experience lower levels of well-being when compared to grandparents who are not raising a grandchild regardless of the grandparent's level of participation in roles beyond that of grandparent caregiver, while grandparents who have been raising a grandchild for longer periods of time seem to benefit from their participation in multiple roles. However, a higher level of participation in outside roles is associated with a decline in well-being among grandparents who stopped raising a grandchild, suggesting that, for these grandparents, participation in multiple roles acted mainly as a stressor rather than as a resource. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100929003 A |
| Classmark | SW: ENR: TM5: P6:SW: SW5: 3F: 7T |
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