Contemporary Midlife Grandparenthood

Kulik, Lars

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-46341-4_8

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“…Most studies regarding role conflict focused on first‐time parents who are coping simultaneously with the responsibility of raising young children and establishing a career (e.g., Nyström & Öhrling, ; Perry‐Jenkins, Goldberg, Pierce, & Sayer, ). Very few studies have focused on role conflict among grandparents (Kulik, ; Settles et al, ). This is despite the fact that contrary to the past, working grandparents face role conflict and multiple commitments, as they are responsible for their own households and careers but called on to help with the grandchildren in order to enable their children to pursue a career (Kulik, ; Settles et al, ).…”

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Stress‐related mental health and growth among first‐time grandparents: The moderating role of family support

Sobol

Shlomo

2019

Stress and Health

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Grandparents play a significant role in modern society, often while struggling to juggle the expectations, demands, and commitments of career and family. The current study examined the unique and combined contribution of stress-related variables associated with multiple roles, such as work stress over commitment, economic stress, and grandchild care burden, to mental health and personal growth of first-time grandparents. The study also examined the role of family support as a moderator of these associations. One hundred ninety-seven first-time Israeli grandparents were asked to complete a series of self-report questionnaires. Higher levels of workrelated stress were associated with lower mental health, whereas grandchild care burden was associated with higher personal growth. Self-mastery and family support contributed to the prediction of mental health. When family support was high, work commitment was positively related to mental health, and economic stress was positively related to personal growth. The findings point to the crucial role of family support in balancing and preserving resources that are important to the mental health of first-time grandparents, while enabling grandparents to be challenged and thrive through their stressors. Therapists who meet with first-time grandparents in the community should take these factors into account when assisting them in adjusting to their new role. K E Y W O R D Sgrandparents, mental health, personal growth

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Stress‐related mental health and growth among first‐time grandparents: The moderating role of family support

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Shlomo

2019

Stress and Health

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“…It appears that the need to simultaneously cope with diverse family demands causes many women in midlife to feel that their families do not give them enough support in volunteer activity (Kulik, 2007). In contrast, women in late adulthood are relieved of some social roles (e.g., paid work) and no longer bear a heavy burden of family responsibility.…”

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Women's Experiences With Volunteering: A Comparative Analysis by Stages of the Life Cycle

Kulik¹

2010

J Applied Social Pyschol

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The author conducted a cross‐sectional study on experiences with and resources for volunteering among 201 Israeli women at 4 life stages: adolescence, young adulthood, middle age, and late adulthood. The experiences examined were positive responses (satisfaction with volunteering; perceived contribution to others), and negative responses (burnout; difficulties with the provider organization and beneficiaries; sense of sacrifice). The resources examined were family support for volunteer activity and empowerment in volunteering. Women in the oldest group reported greater satisfaction and empowerment than did the adolescents, whereas perceived contribution to others was stronger among the adolescents than among women in the other age groups. Differences were found between the women in the oldest and youngest groups with respect to difficulties in volunteering.

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“…Issues of parenting and grandparenting, and other care-giving obligations, also change over the course of adulthood (Kulik, 2007). As Barnett and Baruch (1978) commented: "In most research, the centrality of women's reproductive role is assumed and the importance of their work pattern is ignored.…”

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Gender, Adult Development, and Aging

Stewart

Newton

2009

Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology

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The subject of gender in adulthood is, on its face, too large for a single chapter. In an attempt to define it so that it is feasible to address, we narrow our focus to three broad issues: gender and lifespan developmental approaches to studying adult personality; gender and the aging mind and body across adulthood; and the implications of gendered social roles for adult development and aging. We chose these issues for several reasons.First, we wanted to highlight the differences between a "lifespan developmental" approach to understanding gender in adulthood and an "aging" approach (see also Elder & Shanahan, 2006;Fuller-Iglesias, Antonucci, & Smith, 2008). The first emphasizes growth across the lifespan, often includes qualitatively distinct periods or stages, and does not focus on decline or decrements. This approach emphasizes ways that adults of different ages (e.g., in their 20s vs. their 40s) may differ from each other in important ways. The second approach nearly always includes attention to processes of decline and decrements in functioning, but also increasingly notes functions that do not decline or that might even increase. These two approaches are both important and have both been used to study some phenomena, but in many cases only one of them has been employed. For that reason, we have quite different impressions of aging itself according to these different views, and those differences have consequences for our understanding of gender. For example, personality has been examined most thoroughly in developmental terms in adulthood, is often understood in terms of continuities or lack of change, but has rarely been examined in terms of decline or "aging." In contrast, the cognitive and physical changes associated with adulthood are nearly always conceptualized in terms of broad processes rather than stages and, indeed, usually in terms of decline. Individual researchers who take both approaches to understanding gender in adulthood have advocated attention to contextual issues such as culture, class, or race/ethnicity, but most research has failed to incorporate it. We examine social roles as one set of contextual issues that have been studied in some depth and are often gendered, though men and women both occupy many of them.Finally, in this chapter we pay attention to those aspects of the psychology of adult persons that seem to be inflected by gender, though we note with interest areas where there has been little research. We assume that some aspects of adult psychology are general to both women and men (e.g., that responsibilities for work and other people generally increase until old age, that there is a switch in focus to "time left" after mid-life), and we do not focus on those. Instead we consider evidence that gender matters in certain psychological experiences of adulthood in the three areas mentioned above: personality, cognitive and physical changes, and social roles. Thus, for example, A

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Contemporary Midlife Grandparenthood

Cited by 19 publications

References 31 publications

Stress‐related mental health and growth among first‐time grandparents: The moderating role of family support

Stress‐related mental health and growth among first‐time grandparents: The moderating role of family support

Women's Experiences With Volunteering: A Comparative Analysis by Stages of the Life Cycle

Gender, Adult Development, and Aging

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