Transition to Grandparenthood and Job-Related Attitudes: Do Grandparental Sex and Lineage Matter?

Autor: Christian Levin Burk, Dalit Jaeckel, Bettina S. Wiese
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Journal of Marriage and Family. 78:830-847
ISSN: 0022-2445
DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12307
Popis: This study investigated the impact of the transition to grandparenthood on employees' psychological involvement in their job, attitude toward retirement, and retirement-related hopes and concerns, taking into account sex and lineage. The participants were 152 maternal and paternal grandparents who were assessed at 2 time points (approximately 2 months before and 3 months after the birth of their first grandchild) and 76 control participants who completed the same assessments with an interval of 6 months. Both grandmothers and grandfathers were less involved in their job and had more family-related hopes and fewer retirement-related concerns about health, finances, and dependence than control participants. The analyses also revealed lineage effects: Maternal grandparents were less psychologically involved in their job and had a more positive attitude toward retirement, in particular fewer fears of uselessness and loneliness, than paternal grandparents.
Databáze: OpenAIRE