Musil C M
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4904, USA.
Health Care Women Int. 1998 Sep-Oct;19(5):441-55. doi: 10.1080/073993398246205.
The purposes of this study were to examine health, stress, coping, and supports of grandmothers who live with one or more grandchildren and participate in their care, and to examine whether differences exist between grandmothers with primary and partial responsibility for their grandchildren's care. A convenience sample of 90 women was recruited from various sites, and participants completed a self-administered questionnaire. There were no differences between grandmothers who had primary responsibility for raising their grandchildren (n = 58) and those who did not (n = 32) in self-assessed health, anxiety, or depression; in coping; or in typical grandparenting stresses. Grandmothers with primary responsibility reported significantly greater parenting stresses and less instrumental and subjective social support. Grandmothers in both groups reported high depression and anxiety scores and favorable scores on grandparenting stresses. Implications for grandmother caregivers are discussed.
本研究的目的是调查与一个或多个孙辈一起生活并参与其照料的祖母们的健康、压力、应对方式和支持情况，并探讨在孙辈照料中承担主要责任和部分责任的祖母之间是否存在差异。从不同地点招募了90名女性作为便利样本，参与者完成了一份自填式问卷。在自我评估的健康状况、焦虑或抑郁方面；在应对方式上；或在典型的祖父母压力方面，承担孙辈主要抚养责任的祖母（n = 58）和没有承担主要责任的祖母（n = 32）之间没有差异。承担主要责任的祖母报告的育儿压力明显更大，获得的工具性和主观社会支持更少。两组祖母的抑郁和焦虑得分都很高，在祖父母压力方面得分良好。文中讨论了对祖母照料者的启示。
