intergenerational relations

..Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed...

..To provide a critical review of research literature on the health of grandparents raising grandchildren, and identify directions for future research...

..The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of caring for grandchildren on health behaviors and mental and physical health among older adults...

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..They account for only a small share of the recent historical change in poverty and family structure and play no role in exacerbating existing economic disparities by family structure...

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..Implications for further research, policy, and practice are discussed...

..Results suggest that although "classic" mentoring is most common in both countries, mentoring is somewhat less constrained by social role differences in Japan than is in the United States...

..The total stress experienced was related to these participants' perception of child behavioral difficulty and limited instrumental support...

..The paper concludes by discussing the challenges of involving grandmothers in health education, and the difficulties of incorporating local knowledge into a medical system that largely rejects it...

..This article aims to investigate the scope of care provided by older people, with a specific focus on the experience of grief due to multiple losses and its correlates...

..We also discuss directions for research and practice concerning custodial grandparents...

..There were modest inverse associations between the length of time the child had lived with the grandparent and six of the eight indicators of grandparent health...

..Cognitive ability was unassociated with participation in IGP and affect during IGP. Findings suggest IGPs are appropriate and effective for persons with dementia...

..In addition, communicative respect was more strongly predictive of Africans' satisfaction while certain age stereotypes had contrastive effects for the Ghanaian and South Africans' enjoyment of intergenerational communication...

..The context of care in Confucian texts should provide a sound foundation and substantial understanding for researchers studying care in East Asian society...

..to systematically analyse the Nepalise grandmother's own perspective of breast feeding...

..This research identified the potential for infantilization of clients in centers that offer an occasional program of combined adult and child day care...

..To investigate how grandparents influence their young grandchildren's eating behaviors in Chinese three-generation families...

..Intergenerational communication is reportedly be more problematic than intragenerational communication and, consistent with previous findings, this pattern is more evident in East Asian nations on some variables...

..Our experience indicates that older adults with dementia can still serve as effective mentors and teachers to children in an appropriately structured setting...

..This dramatic deterioration in the situation of the elderly should be seen in the context of the rampant HIV/AIDS epidemic, population growth, changing socio-cultural values, and unfavourable macroeconomic trends...

..The implications of these results for understanding the evolution of human life-history are discussed...

..Issues addressed from a Japanese perspective are (a) women and social norms of caregiving, (b) feminine identity and caregiving, (c) women in the workforce, and (d) women and caregiving. Implications for research are also discussed...

..The aim of this study was to examine the emotional and physical health and experiences of daughter-in-law (DIL) caregivers compared with daughter caregivers who care for cognitively and/or functionally impaired older people in Korea...

..This investigation examined how household composition and support exchanges with adult children influenced the psychological well-being of older parents in rural China...

..CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: Grandparents, parents and children indicate that they need opportunities to learn together and communicate about ways to improve nutrition behaviors...

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..This study examined the cultural attribution of distress in the Chinese, the special role of the family in distress and the specific emotional reactions within distress dictated by culture...

..000, p = .32. Involvement of mothers in the postpartum care of their daughters and grandchildren needs further study, but with precautions, nurses may consider including mothers in the maternal and newborn care of adolescents...

..The findings guide family nurses in promoting family identity formation as a component of family health within the nurse-family partnership with Black-White mixed-race families...

..Prevention of baridi required respect of the elderly and familial norms. The findings may advance professional understanding of cultural knowledge by demonstrating how sociocultural conditions produce variations in health...

..The authors discuss (a) the pattern of generational similarities and discrepancies in the framework of culture stability and change and (b) the coexistence of traditional and modern characteristics in a rapidly changing society...

..Pakikisama is family unity and closeness and Utang na loob is mutual reciprocity "the give and take" and obligation in relationships...

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..Most of these relationships remained significant after controlling for offspring scores on generativity. Generativity of parents appears to be related to successful offspring outcomes...

..Methods of enculturation took the form of stories, modeling, direct teaching and playful interaction...

..The study's implications for research and practice within Portuguese communities are discussed...

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..Family members are empowered to draw on personal strengths in which multiple worldviews and values of individual members are recognized, incorporated, and negotiated...

..Their efforts do not displace those of friends and family members, but rather address unmet needs in available care. The discussion focuses on the implications of the study findings for public policy and practice...

..The ongoing relationship in the dyads did not seem to mimic a parent-child relationship or a grandparent-grandchild relationship, but instead a third kind of relationship that requires further exploration...

..This paper reports the development of the Expectations of Filial Piety Scale for use with Mexican-American parents regarding expectations they have of their adult children for care and support...

..By understanding these coping processes, nurses can assist families to enhance adaptation...

..We will illustrate a wide variety of ways in which gainful employment can contribute to women's well-being and, ultimately, their health...

..Increased awareness and understanding of these meanings are important for nurses as they provide health care for this increasing population...

..It is needed to test whether paternal and maternal ABC prevent the development of mental health problems in later life...

..These results indicate that the multiple demands of parenting may become a barrier to making life-style changes for parents and grandparents diagnosed with hypertension. Nursing implications of the findings are discussed...

..Although older adults who are recent immigrants have a harder time assimilating into a new culture than younger persons, programs can be developed to make this transition easier...

..The process of waiting, rearranging, and stabilizing further explained the timing and elements of restructuring activities...

..Nurses need to know how to identify the primary caregiver, discern the level of strain caused by caregiving, and create a partnership with the caregiver to help ease the burden. Accompanying text explores one caregiver's experience...

..This study sets out to examine the grandparents' own perspective in an exploratory way using a qualitative approach to answer the question, 'What is the experience like?'..

..To examine the factors that influence women's decisions about the timing of motherhood from a life span perspective...

..There was no evidence that a child's overdoing his or her filial role was detrimental to the parents' well-being among the Chinese individuals in this study...

..The present findings suggest that parental characteristics of grandparents might play a role in the development of eating disorders in granddaughters...

..Few studies with nationally representative longitudinal data have examined whether and how family religiosity is associated with adolescent sexual and contraceptive behavior...

..Long-term care providers should be aware of the foundations of Korean Americans' elder care preferences, which are a blend of traditional Korean beliefs about filial piety and adopted American values of independence...

..The close linkage and interaction of desire for care, desire for reliance, and expectations were confirmed. The findings suggested establishing a holistic support network for these elders...

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..In addition, some of the findings of this case study were compared and contrasted with the initial study (Spear, 2001), and implications for practice and research are discussed...

..Separate analyses for individuals already providing care vs. those not yet providing care suggest that secure attachment may be more important in predicting preparation activities for individuals not yet providing care...

..Findings are discussed in relation to theories of social and retributive justice...

..Efforts should be directed toward the use of standardized assessment tools and anticipation of subject dropout with greater subject recruitment...

..The findings suggest a need to further examine the associations between caregivers' relationships with their care recipients and their own emotional status...

..Third, more elaborated indicators of "quality of life" should be used in future analyses...

..Being a grandparent is generally a positive role for older people and for some may be satisfying and enjoyable and endure over many decades...

..Findings have implications for experiential adult education in the area of filial maturity and caregiving...

..The stability of the model for Black and White grandmothers highlights the similarity of the experience across race...

..Although based on a limited sample, this paper provides an important contribution to this understudied aspect of interpersonal relationships...

..59 and 1.55, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: High levels of care provision to grandchildren (and possibly children) may increase the risk of CHD among women...

..Through the struggle of meeting role expectations and coping with paradox, the women mobilized personal and family resources to transform vulnerability into strength and well-being...

..The differential impact of caregiver and care recipient characteristics on the domains of the PAC underlines the usefulness of a multidimensional measurement...

..In terms of caregiver characteristics, working hours in male caregivers is more predictive, and the quality of the relationship with the older adult was more predictive of institutionalization for female caregivers...

..The findings constitute a systematic and thematic description of Danish grandfathers' experiences and therefore add to a family-oriented body of knowledge for intensive care nursing...

..Through personal growth and finding meaning, the caregivers integrated the caregiver role into their lives and became more connected with their families and within themselves...

..Participants also experienced improvement in the level of public benefits received and in their legal relationships with their grandchildren. Implications of these findings for practice are highlighted...

..This study highlights unique cultural and social findings affecting breastfeeding women in Hong Kong which may be useful to health-care providers working with Chinese women locally and internationally...

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..Similar effects were found for the control subjects when they later received the intervention...

..To describe the experience of grandmothers who are parenting their grandchildren, and determine the amount of caregiver burden felt by the grandmothers...

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..Findings from this study can be used to design developmentally and culturally appropriate health care interventions that can support these families during this complex process...

..Welfare state and financial markets offer solutions to problems of previous forms of provision for old age but they also produce new problems of intergenerational relationships...

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..The familial nature of childhood conduct problems has been well documented, but few genetically informed studies have explicitly explored the processes through which parental conduct problems influence an offspring's behavior problems...

..of recent restrictions on the eligibility of even legal immigrants for Supplemental Security Income on intergenerational relations and on the potential burden placed on the older immigrant's family, many of which may be seriously ..

..Dunedin, New Zealand, longitudinal study were 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, and 15 years of age were used to predict intergenerational relations between young adult children (age 26) and their middle-aged parents...

..The study suggests that attitudes towards filial responsibility are influenced by a broad set of mechanisms, which can be equated with concepts of structure, function, association, consensus and norm, as well as conflict and ambivalence...

..Each care-giver had a specific and complementary function depending on gender norms, intergenerational relations and characteristics of the family unit...

..Proximate mechanisms generating the relationship of pre- and postnatal growth rates to adult mortality may include increased feeding, nest attentiveness during incubation and/or allocation of hormones, and deserve further attention...

..Our purpose is to examine how culture-specific conceptions of mutual assistance in four ethnic groups reflect the nature of social exchange and its role in creating continuity...

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..Results indicated that intergenerational relations were more positive when young adults were childless, not unemployed, married, and living away from home,..

..We conclude that females allocate the sex of their offspring among the eggs of their clutch in a manner that maximizes their own fitness...

b>Intergenerational relations are characterised by reciprocal transfers and solidarity over the shared life span...

..The first research aim is to carry out a longitudinal examination of intergenerational relations (emotional involvement as well as contacts), as perceived by and independently reported by both ..

..We expect trainee activities to focus on issues of health, intergenerational relations, midlife development, and rapid population aging, in which faculty resources and research are ..

..in nature; and few have examined the influence of ethnicity, race and culture on intra-family intergenerational relations. This conference will facilitate an exchange among knowledgeable scholars from around the world to ..

..This line of analysis moves beyond a common preoccupation with current intergenerational relations to the important connection between changing lives and relationships...

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..Processes related to behavioral change in young adulthood will be a major focus. ..

..These data will prepare the team to conduct a randomized controlled trial across different levels of health care providers in China. ..

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..We will also examine the impact of these varying patterns of antisocial behavior on life-course transitions to better account for adult development during the late 20s. ..

..Aim 5 is to archive the data for eventual use by other researchers; The findings of this study will inform the development of interventions tailored to assist custodial grandparents and their families. ..

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..Results of the study are expected to inform the development of more effective and culturally sensitive early prevention programs. ..

..The proposed study will be the first randomized controlled intervention trial that specifically targets stigma and access to universal precautions in medical settings, and is implemented at multiple sites (two provinces) in China. ..

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