Grandparenting and Physical Activity. [PDF]
Objective: The aim of this study was to examine a continuum of grandparenting intensity and its association with physical activity using three perspectives: grandparents are active, the more constraints perspective, and the selection bias perspective ...
Drentea P, Pavela G, Tian L, Locher JL.
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Effects of family socioeconomic status on the self-expectations of children under grandparenting in China [PDF]
IntroductionThe increasing expansion of grandparenting necessitates further study of the effects of grandparenting on child development. This study investigated the relationship between family socioeconomic status (SES) and children’s self-expectations ...
QiXuan Hu
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Intergenerational Coparenting Across Physical Distance: Grandparenting Styles, Parental Remote Parenting, and Mental Health Among Left-Behind Children in China [PDF]
The family care of left-behind children often combines in-person grandparental caregiving with parental remote parenting; yet, how these two forms of care jointly relate to children’s mental health remains underexplored. Drawing on family systems theory,
Yean Wang, Wenjie Li, Yifan Du, Yixin Wu
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Grandparenting is a crucial part of family child care. This study aims to examine the effect of grandparenting on the life satisfaction of community-dwelling older migrants, and attempts to explore the psychological mechanisms linking them.
Jun Yao, Hao Wang
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Given the prevalence of depressive mental health symptoms among Chinese adults of grandparenting age in recent decades, a better understanding of how depression and life satisfaction among middle-aged and older adults in China are affected by their role ...
Lijuan Chen, Yiang Li
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Analysis of urban–rural differences in the relationship between grandparenting and the nutrition and health status of children aged 0–3 in China [PDF]
BackgroundThe practice of grandparents taking on the role of primary caregivers for their grandchildren is widespread across both urban and rural regions in China.
Lili Li +3 more
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Caring as curing: Grandparenting and depressive symptoms in China.
Research on grandparenting (i.e., caring for grandchildren) and mental health in Asian contexts has been limited, despite the rapid growth of older adults who take care of grandchildren.
S. Choi, Zhenmei Zhang
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Gender Differences in the Protective Role of Grandparenting in Dementia Risk. [PDF]
OBJECTIVES This study provides one of the first national longitudinal studies of the association between caring for grandchildren (i.e., grandparenting) and the risk of dementia in the U.S., with a focus on gender-specific variations.
Choi SE, Zhang Z, Liu H.
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Grandparenting: Created by Evolution Revised by History: Still in Use Today [PDF]
The ageing of Western societies and its consequences have been long focused on by extended research. Taking care of the elderly is a heavy burden for the healthcare system, the social care system and for the families, and according to statistics and ...
Veronika Bóné
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Grandparenting as the resolution of kinship as experience [PDF]
This article argues that a population of relatively affluent retired people in a small Irish town have employed the possibilities of grandparenting to resolve many of the tensions of contemporary kinship. This includes the tension between the obligations
D. Miller, Pauline Garvey
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