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| In the middle: parental caregiving in the context of other roles | | Author(s) | Margaret J Penning |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 53B, no 4, July 1998 |
| Pages | pp S188-S197 |
| Keywords | Children [offspring] as carers ; Daughters as carers ; Stress ; Social roles ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Parental caregiving has been conceptualised as both a source of role strain and role enhancement. To assess support for each of these perspectives, this article examines the relationship between concurrent multiple roles (as spouse, parent, and employed worker) and the perceived stress and physical and emotional ill health of parental caregivers. Multivariate regression analysis (OLS - ordinary least squares) are conducted using data drawn from a Canadian probability sample of 687 caregivers to parents and parents-in-law. Although the vast majority of parental caregivers are confronted with multiple roles, only weak and inconsistent relationships are evident between particular roles or combinations of roles and caregivers' perceptions of stress and physical emotional health. Little support is found for either a role strain or role enhancement hypothesis. Inconsistencies in the findings point to a need to go beyond simplified expectations of either role strain or role enhancement and examine the meanings assigned to particular roles and the contexts within which they are enacted. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980903241 A |
| Classmark | P6:SS: P6:SSH: QNH: TM5: 7T |
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