The Role of Childhood Relationships With Older Adults in Reducing Risk-Taking by Young Adults

Kennison, Shelia M.; Ponce‐Garcia, Elisabeth

doi:10.1080/15350770.2012.645739

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“…Intriguingly, ageism related to existential anxiety can promote sensation‐seeking and risky behaviours, as ageist individuals attempt to buffer awareness of their mortality by making themselves feel strong, energetic, and invulnerable (Levy & Myers, ; Popham, Kennison, & Bradley, , ). Consistent with this possibility, younger adults who have close positive relationships with older adults hold less negative attitudes about ageing and also engage in less risk taking in everyday life (Kennison & Ponce‐Garcia, ). If so, ageism may have been reduced in our nostalgia conditions, because nostalgia about an encounter with an older adult buffered participants from existential threat.…”

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Fighting ageism through nostalgia

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Sedikides

2017

Euro J Social Psych

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Two experiments tested whether nostalgia is as a resource for fighting ageism. In Experiment 1, younger adults who recalled a nostalgic (vs. ordinary) encounter with an older adult showed a more positive attitude toward older adults, mediated by greater inclusion of older adults in the self (inclusion of outgroup in the self; IOGS). In Experiment 2, these findings were replicated and extended with a subtle nostalgia manipulation. Younger adults identified an older, familiar adult. Then, they wrote about an encounter with this older adult that was characterised by either central (e.g., "keepsakes," "childhood") or peripheral (e.g., "wishing,""daydreaming") features of the construct of nostalgia (i.e., prototype). Participants who recalled a central (vs. peripheral) nostalgic encounter reported greater social connectedness, which predicted increased IOGS. In turn, increased IOGS was associated with lower desire to avoid older adults. Several alternative explanations for the intergroup benefits of nostalgia were ruled out. The research established that nostalgia qualifies as a resource for combatting ageism.

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Fighting ageism through nostalgia

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Sedikides

2017

Euro J Social Psych

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“…Similarly, grandchildren involved in positive GP-GC relationships have been found to limit their use of illicit drugs and other risk-taking behaviors (Kennison & Ponce-Garcia, 2012), along with experiencing fewer general conduct problems, such as school and relational problems (Griggs, Tan, Buchanan, Attar-Schwartz, & Flouri, 2010). Grandparents also teach their grandchildren about the family history (Brussoni & Boon, 1998) while positively influencing their grandchildren’s financial (Kennedy, 1990) and psychological well-being (Mansson, 2013b), attitudes toward older people (Harwood, 2018), school (Brussoni & Boon, 1998), family identity (Soliz & Harwood, 2006), and the prospect of developing other close dyadic relationships that may benefit the grandchildren (Mansson & Booth-Butterfield, 2011; O’Neil & Klein, 2008).…”

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Grandchildren’s Perceptions of Grandparents’ Use of Relational Maintenance Behaviors

Månsson

2019

Int J Aging Hum Dev

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The purposes of this study were to examine (a) grandchildren’s perceptions of the extent to which their grandparents’ use relational maintenance behaviors; (b) grandchildren’s perceived differences in grandparents’ use of relational maintenance behaviors as functions of grandparent sex, grandchild sex, and grandparent–grandchild (GP-GC) family lineage; and (c) the relationships between grandchildren’s perceptions of their grandparents’ use of relational maintenance behaviors and the grandchildren’s self-reported GP-GC relational characteristics. Young adult grandchildren ( N = 209) completed a questionnaire in reference to a specific GP-GC relationship. Descriptive statistics indicated that grandparents use the seven relational maintenance behaviors (i.e., advice, assurances, conflict management, networks, openness, positivity, and tasks) to different degrees. However, the multivariate analyses of variance did not indicate any significant effects for grandparent and grandchild sex or GP-GC family lineage on perceived grandparental use of relational maintenance behaviors. Conversely, Pearson correlations provided support for the hypothesized positive relationships between grandchildren’s perceptions of their grandparents’ use of relational maintenance behaviors and the grandchildren’s self-reported GP-GC relational characteristics.

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“…Along the same lines, it is intriguing whether we would have observed the same effects with individuals who were reared by nonparental guardians. Follow-up work may seek to investigate whether the effects reported here are consistent with other caretakers, such as grandparents (e.g., Kennison & Ponce-Garcia, 2012). An additional point for consideration is that we did not measure parental perceptions of relationship quality with their children.…”

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Longitudinal Increases in Parent–Child Relationship Quality and Sensation Seeking Interact to Increase Risk-Taking During the College Transition

Moreira

Telzer

2017

Emerging Adulthood

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We tested two competing predictions of whether changes in parent-child relationship quality buffer or exacerbate the association between sensation-seeking and risk-taking behaviors as individuals gain more independence during the high school-college transition. In the current longitudinal study, 287 participants completed self-report measures of sensation seeking, risk-taking, and parent-child relationship quality with their parents prior to starting college and again during their first semester. Overall, students displayed increases in risky behaviors, which were predicted by sensation seeking. Changes in relationship quality moderated the association between sensation seeking and risk-taking, such that sensation seeking predicted higher risk-taking behaviors during the first semester of college, but only for those who reported increases in relationship quality across the college transition. These results suggest that increased relationship quality may have an inadvertent spillover effect by interacting with sensation seeking to increase risky behaviors.

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The Role of Childhood Relationships With Older Adults in Reducing Risk-Taking by Young Adults

Cited by 18 publications

References 21 publications

Fighting ageism through nostalgia

Fighting ageism through nostalgia

Grandchildren’s Perceptions of Grandparents’ Use of Relational Maintenance Behaviors

Longitudinal Increases in Parent–Child Relationship Quality and Sensation Seeking Interact to Increase Risk-Taking During the College Transition

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