Grandmothers providing care for grandchildren: Consequences of various levels of caregiving
Grandmothers providing care for grandchildren: Consequences of various levels of caregiving
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DOI:
10.2307/585641
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发表时间:
1999-07-01
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影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Myers, BJ
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作者:
Bowers, BF;Myers, BJ
This article explores the differences between grandmothers who provide different levels of caregiving responsibility for a grand child. One-hundred and one grandmothers participated in the study: 23 who were providing full-time care for a grandchild, 33 who were providing part-time care Sor a grandchild and 45 who visited a grandchild regularly but had no caregiving responsibility Sor that grandchild Results showed that the grandchild's behavior problems macle the largest impact on rite grandmother increasing her feelings of burden and parenting stress and decreasing her grandparenting satisfaction. In addition, full-time caregiving grandmothers experienced moi-e burden and parenting stress and less grandparenting satisfaction than part-time caregiving grandmothers. Full-time caregiving grandmothers also reported less life satisfaction than other grandmothers in the study. An area that deserves attention in Suture studies is how the relationship with the adult child (the grandchild's parent) influences rite stress, burden, and satisfaction associated with full-time caregiving.