Mansson Daniel H
52480 Penn State Hazleton, PA, USA.
Int J Aging Hum Dev. 2020 Sep;91(2):127-148. doi: 10.1177/0091415019852776. Epub 2019 May 26.
The purposes of this study were to examine (a) grandchildren's perceptions of the extent to which their grandparents' use relational maintenance behaviors; (b) grandchildren's perceived differences in grandparents' use of relational maintenance behaviors as functions of grandparent sex, grandchild sex, and grandparent-grandchild (GP-GC) family lineage; and (c) the relationships between grandchildren's perceptions of their grandparents' use of relational maintenance behaviors and the grandchildren's self-reported GP-GC relational characteristics. Young adult grandchildren ( = 209) completed a questionnaire in reference to a specific GP-GC relationship. Descriptive statistics indicated that grandparents use the seven relational maintenance behaviors (i.e., advice, assurances, conflict management, networks, openness, positivity, and tasks) to different degrees. However, the multivariate analyses of variance did not indicate any significant effects for grandparent and grandchild sex or GP-GC family lineage on perceived grandparental use of relational maintenance behaviors. Conversely, Pearson correlations provided support for the hypothesized positive relationships between grandchildren's perceptions of their grandparents' use of relational maintenance behaviors and the grandchildren's self-reported GP-GC relational characteristics.
（a）孙辈对其祖父母使用关系维持行为程度的认知；（b）孙辈所感知的祖父母在使用关系维持行为方面因祖父母性别、孙辈性别以及祖孙（GP-GC）家族谱系不同而存在的差异；（c）孙辈对其祖父母使用关系维持行为的认知与孙辈自我报告的祖孙关系特征之间的关系。年轻成年孙辈（n = 209）针对特定的祖孙关系填写了一份问卷。描述性统计表明，祖父母在不同程度上使用七种关系维持行为（即建议、保证、冲突管理、社交网络、开放性、积极性和任务）。然而，多变量方差分析并未表明祖父母和孙辈的性别或祖孙家族谱系对所感知的祖父母使用关系维持行为有任何显著影响。相反，皮尔逊相关性为以下假设的正相关关系提供了支持：孙辈对其祖父母使用关系维持行为的认知与孙辈自我报告的祖孙关系特征之间的正相关关系。
