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JOURNAL OF INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 285-304Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/15350770802157802
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Grandparents as caregivers; depressive symptoms; social integration; role strain
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- National Institute on Aging [T32-AG00037]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [T32AG000037] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Using the Health and Retirement Study, this research examines well-being among grandparents raising grandchildren during middle to late life, specifically looking at how other roles in which a grandparent is participating (such as worker, volunteer, parent, or caregiver) may influence depressive symptoms among grandparent caregivers. Results indicate that grandparents who have recently begun raising a grandchild experience lower levels of well-being when compared to grandparents who are not raising a grandchild regardless of the grandparent's level of participation in roles beyond that of grandparent caregiver, while grandparents who have been raising a grandchild for longer periods of time seem to benefit from their participation in multiple roles. However, a higher level of participation in outside roles is associated with a decline in wellbeing among grandparents who stopped raising a grandchild, suggesting that, for these grandparents, participation in multiple roles acted mainly as a stressor rather than as a resource.
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