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KMID : 0606420100160030288
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Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing
2010 Volume.16 No. 3 p.288 ~ p.296
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Grandmother’s Life Satisfaction and Influencing Factors by Grandparenting
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Chung Chae-Weon
Kim Moon-Jeong
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Abstract
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Purpose The study was to compare the factors of life satisfaction between grandmothers parenting and not parenting their grandchildren.
Methods A descriptive design with a convenience sampling was used for this study. From communities in S and U city, 85 parenting grandmothers (PG) and 103 non-parenting grandmothers (NPG) were recruited. The PG were those grandmothers who cared for preschooler grandchildren for their daughter or daughter-in-law who was employed.
Results The demographics of the two groups were similar, however the value of grandparenting was significantly higher in the PG than the NPG (t=4.56, p<.001). In the PG, strong and significant correlations were found among the value of grandparenting, health status, quality of relations with adult children, and life satisfaction. However, demographics were more related to health status and life satisfaction in the NPG. The value of grandparenting, health status, and quality of grandmother-adult children relations were found to be significant factors of life satisfaction (F=20.75, p<.001) explaining 42% of the variances. In the NPG, only health status was a significant factor (F=50.66, p<.001) explaining 33% of the variances.
Conclusion This study shows that grandmothers’ perceptions of grandparenting and family relationships need to be incorporated into the lifestyle in order to support parenting grandmothers’ life satisfaction while grandmothers’ health is the common concern of elderly women’s life satisfaction.
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KEYWORD
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Parenting, Life, Satisfaction, Aged, Health status
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