Grandchild caring and late-life depression: a comparative longitudinal study in China and Europe
Grandchild caring and late-life depression: a comparative longitudinal study in China and Europe
The impact of grandparenting on the grandparents’ health has been relatively under-studied. This study examined country differences in the effects of grandchild care provision on the grandparents’ depression in Italy, Spain, China, Denmark and Sweden using the longitudinal Harmonised CHARLS and SHARE data collected between 2010-15. Controlling for the grandparents’ depression in 2011, grandmothers providing non-intensive grandparental care in Sweden in 2013 reported lower depression score in 2015 compared to those who did not provide any care in 2013. Chinese grandfathers, Italian and Swedish grandmothers who provided intensive grandchild care reported lower depression score compared to their counterparts who did not provide any grandchild care. This study indicates that the Structural Ambivalence Theory can only partially explain the findings, suggesting further theoretical development in this area. Future research can focus on identifying the causal pathways between grandparenting and wellbeing, and the implications of such pathways for older persons’ wellbeing worldwide.
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Yang, Yazhen
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Yang, Yazhen
3d31fa56-7ce5-4f7a-844a-622bad392669
Yang, Yazhen
(2021)
Grandchild caring and late-life depression: a comparative longitudinal study in China and Europe.
Journal of Family Issues, 44 (2), .
(doi:10.1177/0192513X211050327).
Abstract
The impact of grandparenting on the grandparents’ health has been relatively under-studied. This study examined country differences in the effects of grandchild care provision on the grandparents’ depression in Italy, Spain, China, Denmark and Sweden using the longitudinal Harmonised CHARLS and SHARE data collected between 2010-15. Controlling for the grandparents’ depression in 2011, grandmothers providing non-intensive grandparental care in Sweden in 2013 reported lower depression score in 2015 compared to those who did not provide any care in 2013. Chinese grandfathers, Italian and Swedish grandmothers who provided intensive grandchild care reported lower depression score compared to their counterparts who did not provide any grandchild care. This study indicates that the Structural Ambivalence Theory can only partially explain the findings, suggesting further theoretical development in this area. Future research can focus on identifying the causal pathways between grandparenting and wellbeing, and the implications of such pathways for older persons’ wellbeing worldwide.
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Accepted/In Press date: 14 September 2021
e-pub ahead of print date: 24 November 2021
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BSPS Annual Conference 2021, 2021-09-14 - 2021-09-15
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/484773
ISSN: 0192-513X
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