Department of Sport, Leisure, & Recreation, Soonchunhyang University, Asan 31538, Korea.
Pi-Touch Institute, Seoul 04511, Korea.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jun 29;19(13):7981. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19137981.
The purpose of this study is to investigate how contact care by adult children influences the effect of caring for grandchildren on depression in older adult individuals. Studies have shown that caring for grandchildren either increases or decreases the symptoms of depression in older adult individuals, while other studies have shown no effect. The reason for these inconsistent results is that the key control variable, contact care by adult children, has been omitted from these previous studies. An analysis of panel data consisting of observations from 162 older adult respondents in the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging over the 2008-2016 period confirms that the positive effect of caring for grandchildren on depression in older adults increased as the number of adult children who visited their older adult parents after entrusting their children to them increased. As more of their adult children visited the older adult individuals, the latter were more likely to feel that caring for their grandchildren was healing rather than stressful.
本研究旨在探讨成年子女的接触式照料如何影响照顾孙辈对老年个体抑郁的影响。研究表明，照顾孙辈要么增加要么减少老年个体的抑郁症状，而其他研究则没有显示出效果。造成这些不一致结果的原因是，此前的研究忽略了关键的控制变量，即成年子女的接触式照料。对 2008-2016 年期间韩国老龄化纵向研究中 162 名老年受访者的面板数据进行分析，证实了照顾孙辈对老年个体抑郁的积极影响随着将孩子托付给他们后看望老年父母的成年子女数量的增加而增加。随着更多的成年子女看望老年个体，后者越有可能感到照顾孙辈是一种治愈而不是压力。
