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| Custodial grandparenting and the impact of grandchildren with problems on role satisfaction and role meaning | | Author(s) | Bert Hayslip, R Jerald Shore, Craig E Henderson |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 53B, no 3, May 1998 |
| Pages | pp S164-S173 |
| Keywords | Grandparents as carers ; Grandchildren ; Family relationships ; Stress ; Social roles ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Increasing numbers of grandparents accept surrogate parent roles for their grandchildren, often prompted by family crises. The aim of this study was to compare three groups of grandparents in order to examine the extent to which personal, role-specific, and grandchild-relationship sources of distress were experienced by custodial grandparents due to their non-traditional roles, while attempting to separate grandparental role demands from child-specific problems as the sources of distress. Findings revealed that those grandparents raising grandchildren reported to demonstrate neurological, physical, emotional, or behavioural problems exhibited the most personal distress, the least role satisfaction and role meaning, and the most deteriorated grandparent-grandchild relationships. Custodial grandparents raising grandchildren reported to have few problems also differed in similar ways from those grandparents not raising their grandchildren and from those raising grandchildren with problems. For men, but not women, more positive grandparent meaning was associated with raising a grandchild. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980813423 A |
| Classmark | P6:SW: SW5: DS:SJ: QNH: TM5: 7T |
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