INDIVIDUALISTIC VALUES AND SUPPORT PROVIDED TO GRANDCHILDREN
Tianqi Zhou, Martin Lakomý, Merril Silverstein · 2024
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Tianqi Zhou, Martin Lakomý, and Merril Silverstein ask whether grandparents' values shape the help they give grandchildren, in a 2024 study. Values are widely thought to steer family life, but the role of individualism, prizing independence over group duty, in grandparenting was little tested. The team used seven waves of a long-running multigenerational American study, covering 1,309 grandparents in 307 families with a youngest grandchild of sixteen or under.
More individualistic grandparents gave less hands-on, practical support: rides, shopping, help when sick, and childcare. No clear link appeared for emotional support. Practical help also ran stronger in families with younger grandparents and younger grandchildren. Emotional support clustered instead in families with highly educated grandparents and with more, older grandchildren. The authors say value change can reshape what grandparental care looks like, even where the duty to give it endures.
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| CREATOR | Tianqi Zhou, Martin Lakomý, Merril Silverstein |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |