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Thermal transgenerational effects remain after two generations

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Transgenerational plasticity (TGP) is increasingly recognized as a mechanism by which organisms can respond to environments that change across generations.
Who‐Seung Lee, Santiago Salinas, Young‐Rog Lee, Jo Anne Siskidis, Marc Mangel, Stephan B. Munch   +5 more
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Importance of Academic Legacy on Student Success in First- and Second-Semester General Chemistry [PDF]

Journal of Research in Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2023
This investigation sought to elucidate the influence of students' academic legacy on their prior knowledge and course outcomes providing crucial insights for educators who teach general chemistry.
G. Robert Shelton, Adrian Villalta-Cerdas, Ben Jang, Anton Dubrovskiy, Blain Mamiya, Rebecca Weber, Susan Broadway, Vickie Williamson, Cynthia Powell, Diana Mason   +9 more
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Virtual Grandparenting: Identifying Barriers to Supportive Video Chat between Grandparents and Grandchildren

Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 2022
Many grandparents today are physically separated from their families. Given that maintaining close family relationships (with both adult children and grandchildren) is associated with increased physical, mental, and emotional health across generations ...
Jennifer M. Zosh, Gabrielle A. Strouse, Lauren J. Myers, Chi Xu, Zachary D. Stuckelman, Elisabeth McClure, Georgene L. Troseth, Rachel Barr   +7 more
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Pama–Nyungan grandparent systems change with grandchildren, but not cross-cousin terms or social norms

Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020
Kinship is a fundamental and universal aspect of the structure of human society. The kinship category of ‘grandparents’ is socially salient, owing to grandparents’ investment in the care of the grandchildren as well as to older generations’ control of ...
Catherine Sheard, Claire Bowern, Rikker Dockum, Fiona M. Jordan   +3 more
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Association between intergenerational solidarity involving elders and mental health of Indigenous people living off reserve

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Indigenous elders play an important role in transmitting knowledge, values and practices, hence fostering identity-building through intergenerational solidarity. We aimed to verify the association between intergenerational solidarity involving
Chantal Viscogliosi, Hugo Asselin, Lise Trottier, Monia D’Amours, Mélanie Levasseur   +4 more
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Sociodemographic determinants of life satisfaction among grandparent caregivers

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionIt has become a common contemporary phenomenon for grandparents to provide care for young children in their family in both urban and rural areas.
Yi Xu, Ling Zhang, Shuyuan Mao, Si Zhang, Shuzhen Peng, Qi Zhang, Wenwen Wu, Xiaodong Tan   +7 more
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Grandparents and grandchildren (review of foreign studies) [PDF]

Современная зарубежная психология, 2019
The article reviews foreign studies of intergenerational relationships. It analyzes grandchild-grandparent relations, as well as the figure of the grandparent and his/her understanding of his/her role in the system of relations with family members ...
Bulygina M.V., Komarova S.V.
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Which activities do great-grandparents and great-grandchildren share in family contexts? An analysis of a new intergenerational relationship

Anales de Psicologia, 2021
The main aim of this study was to find out more about the role of great-grandparenthood. A group of participants with great-grandchildren (n = 78) was interviewed using a questionnaire containing questions that had been put through a previous pilot study,
Pedro Javier Castañeda-García, Vanesa Cruz-Santana, Fayna Hernández-Garrido, Paula Díaz-Rodríguez, Sara Romero-González   +4 more
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“We Usually Go Out Instead, So That He Forgets About His Tablet”: (Great-)Grandparental Mediation in the Generational Order

International Journal of Communication, 2022
Research on mediation of children’s media use has primarily focused on parents, while the role of other social agents, such as grandparents, has gained little attention.
Carolina Martínez
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Family histories and the demography of grandparenthood

Demographic Research, 2018
Background: Grandparenthood is an important phase of life for many individuals, and the grandparent role has consequences on younger generations and grandparents themselves.
Bruno Arpino, Jordi Gumà, Albert Julià
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