PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING OF CORESIDENT GRANDPARENTS

这项研究提出了一种影响的横断面检查， 与年幼的孙子生活在一起会对 黑人和白人的祖父母。这将是最早的研究之一 研究探索祖父母和外祖父母的角色 孙子孙女共担一家之家的影响 祖父母的角色对祖父母的心理健康有影响。 在家庭压力理论的基础上，这项研究将考察 压力源、资源和主观感知会影响哪些因素 心理健康，以及种族对 这些关系。确认祖父母有可能患上心脏病 心理问题以及可能的干预策略 缓解或缓解这些问题将会导致。 这项为期三年的研究的具体目的是：(I)探讨 与年幼的孙子孙女生活在一起并照顾他们 祖父母的心理健康状况；(2)建立和测试 压力源、资源和主观因素对模型的解释力 认知可以预测为什么一些祖父母会遇到 当他人兴旺发达时，心理健康；3)检查缓和 种族(黑人、白人)对人与人之间关系的影响 压力源、资源知觉与心理幸福感 祖父母，(4)理解祖父母对 他们作为祖父母的经历的个人意义；以及(5)发展 700名祖父母和孙辈一起生活的数据库，供未来使用 多代生活对两者长期影响的研究 祖父母和孙辈。 该设计建议包括700名祖父母，至少与一人一起生活 处于基本学龄期的孙子。一半的样本是黑色的，一半是黑色的 应该是怀特。纳入另外175名祖父母的样本 没有与孙子孙女一起生活，他们是从生成的列表中随机选择的 包括符合条件的人，并与已知的变量相匹配 与心理健康相关的能力将提供 直接考察生活和提供变化的影响 对孙辈的资助水平对祖父母的 心理健康。

This research proposes a cross-sectional examination of the impact which living with young grandchildren has on the psychological well-being of Black and White grandparents. It would be among the first research studies to explore the role of the grandparent when grandparent and grandchild share a household as well as the effects which variations in the grandparent role have on the psychological well-being of grandparents. Grounded in a theory of family stress, the study would examine the ways in which stressors, resources, and subjective perceptions impact psychological well-being, and the moderating effects which race has on these relationships. Identification of grandparents at risk for psychological problems as well as strategies for intervention which could alleviate or mitigate these problems would result. The specific aims of the three year study are to: (I) Explore the effects which living with and providing care to young grandchildren have on the psychological well-being of grandparents; (2) Build and test the explanatory power of a model in which stressors, resources, and subjective perceptions predict why some grandparents experience problems with psychological well-being while others thrive; 3) Examine the moderating effects which race (Black, White) has on the relationships between stressors, resources perceptions, and psychological well-being of grandparents, (4) Understand the insight which grandparents have about the personal meaning of their experience as grandparent; and (5) Develop a database of 700 grandparents living with grandchildren for use in future studies of the long term effects of multi-generational living on both grandparents and grandchildren. The design proposes to include 700 grandparents living with at least one elemental school-aged grandchild. Half the sample would be Black, half would be White. Inclusion of an additional sample of 175 grandparents who are not living with grandchildren, selected randomly from lists generated to include eligible people, and matched by variables known to be associated with psychological well-being would provide the ability to directly examine the effects which living with and providing varying levels of assistance to grandchildren have on grandparent's level of psychological well-being.