Character Strengths and Social Support as Protective Factors between Grandparents' Caregiving and Health-Related Quality of Life.
The number of grandparents providing supplementary care for their grandchildren has increased in the past decades. When analyzing the relationship between the amount of care provided by grandparents and their health, there are mixed results. Some studies suggest that the effects on supplementary car...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 31; no. 9; pp. 2505 - 2518 |
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Sep2022
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=159001467&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 159001467 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10621024 JFM jtl: Journal of Child & Family Studies issn: 10621024 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2022 vid: 31 iid: 9 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 159001467 10.1007/s10826-021-02187-9 ppf: 2505 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 763KB tig: atl: Character Strengths and Social Support as Protective Factors between Grandparents' Caregiving and Health-Related Quality of Life. aug: au: Noriega, Cristina Velasco, Cristina Pérez-Rojo, Gema López, Javier affil: Department of Psychology and Pedagogy, School of Medicine, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, CEU Universities, 28925, Madrid, Spain su: Spain Prevention of psychological stress Social support Self-perception Intergenerational relations Grandparents Health status indicators Families Psychology Character Psychosocial factors Quality of life Psychological adaptation Services for caregivers Caregiver attitudes Humanity Conceptual models Path analysis (Statistics) Psychological resilience sug: subj: Prevention of psychological stress Social support Self-perception Intergenerational relations Grandparents Health status indicators Families Psychology Character Psychosocial factors Quality of life Psychological adaptation Spain Other Individual and Family Services Services for caregivers Caregiver attitudes Humanity Conceptual models Path analysis (Statistics) Psychological resilience keyword: Caregivers; Grandparent-grandchild relationships; Grandparenthood Health-Related Quality of Life; Psychological Resources; Caregivers; Grandparent-grandchild relationships; Grandparenthood Health-Related Quality of Life; Psychological Resources; ab: The number of grandparents providing supplementary care for their grandchildren has increased in the past decades. When analyzing the relationship between the amount of care provided by grandparents and their health, there are mixed results. Some studies suggest that the effects on supplementary caregivers' health appear to be mediated by the context of caregiving (e.g., personal resources, social context, etc) instead of by its intensity. However, little data has examined the relationship between care intensity and Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) (a concept that goes beyond health status) and what protective factors may mediate between care provided by grandparents and HRQoL. Based on the Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment and Adaptation (McCubbin, 1993), we aimed to examine how the amount of care provided to grandchildren relates to grandparents' mental and physical HRQoL and if social support and character strengths act as protective factors mediating this relationship. A sample of 300 grandparents from Spain participated in this study. We grouped participants by the type of supplementary care they were providing: regular or occasional. To test our hypotheses, we conducted path analysis. Character strengths and social support mediated the effect of the amount of care on grandparents' mental HRQoL. Results also underlined the importance of character strengths as a mediator between the amount of care provided and grandparents' physical HRQoL. This study highlights the importance of considering a positive orientation focused on protective factors (social support and character strengths) that may minimize the impact of the difficulties associated with grandparents' caregiving. Highlights: This study analyzed the impact of caregiving on grandparents based on The Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment and Adaptation. Regular caregivers did not show worse health-related quality of life scores than non-regular ones. The impact of caregiving on grandparents' mental and physical health was mediated positively by their character strengths. Social support is a significant resource to cope with caregiving. Researchers, professionals and policy makers should consider grandparents' protective factors such as character strengths and social support. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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