Inter-generational role investments of great-grandparents: Consequences for psychological well-being
Inter-generational role investments of great-grandparents: Consequences for psychological well-being
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DOI：
10.1017/s0144686x03001533
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发表时间：
2004-01-01
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2.5
通讯作者：
Silverstein, M
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作者：
Drew, LM;Silverstein, M
身份认同理论认为，那些认为自己的家庭角色很突出，并且在工作中感到有能力的人比其他人有更好的心理健康。本文评估了父母、祖父母和曾祖父母角色投资影响自尊、抑郁水平和情感平衡的方式。188名平均年龄为73岁的受访者是南加州大学世代纵向研究的参与者，在调查时担任了所有三个角色。他们自我评估的性能，重要性，一个人的身份和满意度在他们的家庭角色的质量。总体而言，随着从父母到曾祖父母的血统距离的增加，角色投资水平持续下降。潜在相关性表明，父母角色投资与幸福感的相关性最高，其次是祖父母和曾祖父母角色的投资。然而，结构方程模型显示，这三个角色中的任何一个都没有对福祉产生独特的影响（由于高度的相互关联）。这三种角色结构形成了一个单一的元结构，与心理健康呈正相关。它的结论是，代际角色投资的强度和后果的层次结构的关系接近，但也表现在一个单一的综合家庭身份，这表明有两个竞争和互补的家庭角色结构在以后的生活。
Identity theory suggests that individuals who perceive their family roles as salient and feel competent in their performance have greater psychological well-being than others. This paper assesses the ways in which aspects of parent, grandparent and great-grandparent role investments affect self-esteem, levels of depression and affect-balance. The 188 respondents with an average age of 73 years were participants in the, University of Southern California Longitudinal Study of Generations and occupied all three roles at the time of rneasurement. They self-assessed quality of performance, importance, to one's identity and satisfaction in their family roles. Overall, levels of role investment declined consistently with greater lineage distance from parent to great-grandparent. Latent correlations showed that parent role investment was most highly associated with well-being, followed by investment in grandparent and great-grandparent roles. Structural equation modelling, however, revealed no unique effects, on wellbeing for any of the three roles (as a result of high inter-correlations). All three role structures formed a single meta-construct that was positively related to psychological well-being. It is concluded that the strength and consequences of inter-generational role investments were hierarchically structured by relational proximity, but also manifested in a single integrated family identity, which suggests that there are two competing and complementary views of family role structures in later life.