Care-giving to grandchildren and elderly parents : role conflict or family solidarity?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F18%3A00100926" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/18:00100926 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ageing-and-society/article/caregiving-to-grandchildren-and-elderly-parents-role-conflict-or-family-solidarity/648072A84916D6864DFEDA82C2326F40" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ageing-and-society/article/caregiving-to-grandchildren-and-elderly-parents-role-conflict-or-family-solidarity/648072A84916D6864DFEDA82C2326F40</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X16001434" target="_blank" >10.1017/S0144686X16001434</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Care-giving to grandchildren and elderly parents : role conflict or family solidarity?
Original language description
Intergenerational help and care among members of the family belong to the most important dimensions of contemporary welfare regimes. Recent research has indicated that a major part of caring responsibilities is placed on the middle-aged generation. The ‘pivot generation’ is expected to provide help to their adult children and grandchildren as well as to their ageing parents. It has been hypothesised that people helping their parents are discouraged from looking after their grandchildren because they experience lack of energy and time. Using data from the four waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), this paper analyses the effect of providing help to ageing parents on the likelihood and intensity of looking after grandchildren. It takes a four-generation perspective: grandchildren, children, parents and grandparents. The results show that the support of parents is not associated with less-frequent and less-intense care of grandchildren. On the contrary, a positive association between caring responsibilities has been observed. The highest tendency to care for grandchildren has been found for people regularly helping their parents. This effect holds after controlling for grandparents’ characteristics and country effects. It is suggested that caring responsibilities tend to accumulate rather than compete with one another and therefore could represent a potential risk of overburden for those who have a general tendency to care.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50400 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GB14-36154G" target="_blank" >GB14-36154G: Dynamics of change in Czech society</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ageing & Society
ISSN
0144-686X
e-ISSN
1469-1779
Volume of the periodical
38
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
974-994
UT code for WoS article
000434282300005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85007442805