Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Aging Ment Health. 2022 Dec;26(12):2381-2389. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2021.1998349. Epub 2021 Nov 23.
The present study aims to identify distinct types of relationships between grandparents and their adult children, measure the associations between these relationship types and depressive symptoms among grandparents, and determine whether these associations vary by grandparent status. This study uses data from a sample of 1,196 grandparents age 51 and older from the 2014 Health and Retirement Study. Latent class analysis (LCA) is applied and identifies types of grandparent-adult children relationships. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression models are used to estimate the association between relationship types and depressive symptoms by grandparent status. LCA identified four grandparent-adult children relationship types: amicable, ambivalent, detached, and disharmonious. Custodial and co-parenting grandparents were most likely to report having an ambivalent relationship with their adult children. Among co-parenting and custodial grandparents, disharmonious relationships were associated with more depressive symptoms. Interventions are suggested to improve emotional relationships with adult children and dyadic family relationships among grandparent families.
本研究旨在确定祖父母与成年子女之间不同类型的关系，衡量这些关系类型与祖父母抑郁症状之间的关联，并确定这些关联是否因祖父母身份而异。本研究使用了来自 2014 年健康与退休研究中 1196 名 51 岁及以上祖父母的样本数据。应用潜在类别分析（LCA）确定了祖父母-成年子女关系的类型。使用普通最小二乘法（OLS）回归模型，按祖父母身份估计关系类型与抑郁症状之间的关联。LCA 确定了四种祖父母-成年子女关系类型：友好、矛盾、疏远和不和谐。监护和共同育儿的祖父母最有可能报告与成年子女之间存在矛盾的关系。在共同育儿和监护的祖父母中，不和谐的关系与更多的抑郁症状相关。建议采取干预措施，改善与成年子女的情感关系和祖父母家庭的二元家庭关系。
