PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING OF CORESIDENT GRANDPARENTS

这项研究提出了一个横截面检查的影响， 和年幼的孙子一起生活对孩子的心理健康有影响。 黑人和白色祖父母。 这将是第一个研究 研究探讨祖父母在祖父母和 孙子共享一个家庭，以及变化的影响， 对祖父母心理健康的影响。 这项研究以家庭压力理论为基础， 压力源、资源和主观感知会影响 心理健康，以及种族对心理健康的调节作用。 这些关系。确定有风险的祖父母 心理问题以及干预策略， 缓解或减轻这些问题。 三年研究的具体目的是：（一）探索影响 与年幼的孙辈一起生活并照顾他们， （2）建立和测试祖父母的心理健康; 模型的解释力，其中压力，资源和主观 感知预测为什么一些祖父母会遇到问题， 心理健康，而其他人茁壮成长; 3）检查调节 种族（黑人、白色）对 压力源、资源感知和心理健康 （4）了解祖父母对孩子的看法。 他们作为祖父母的经验的个人意义;（5）制定一个 700名与孙辈生活在一起的祖父母的数据库，供今后使用 研究多代同堂的长期影响， 祖父母和孙子孙女。 该设计计划包括700名祖父母，他们至少与一名 小学学龄的孙子一半的样本是黑人， 应该是白色。纳入了额外的175名祖父母样本， 没有和孙子一起生活，这些孙子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， 直接检查的影响，生活和提供不同的 对孙辈的援助水平与祖父母的水平相同， 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.