Care-giving to grandchildren and elderly parents : role conflict or family solidarity?

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Care-giving to grandchildren and elderly parents : role conflict or family solidarity?

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Care-giving to grandchildren and elderly parents : role conflict or family solidarity?

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50400 - Sociology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GB14-36154G" target="_blank" >GB14-36154G: Dynamika změny v české společnosti</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Ageing & Society

ISSN

0144-686X

e-ISSN

1469-1779

Svazek periodika

38

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

5

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

974-994

Kód UT WoS článku

000434282300005

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85007442805