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KMID : 0904520210560010087
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Health and Medical Sociology
2021 Volume.56 No. 1 p.87 ~ p.110
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Caring time for grandchildren and quality of life for middle and old aged people living with grandchildren
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Choi Eun-Hee
Lee Yun-Suk
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Abstract
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Using the data from the 2014 Korean Time Use Study, this study 1) measures the time the elderly living with grandchildren spend on caring for grandchildren, 2) examines the factors affecting these amounts of time distribution and 3) investigates the relationship between the time spent for caring and their life satisfaction. In particular, the differences between men and women were examined in these research questions. We find that men s grandchildren care time was 40.7 minutes on average and women s was 79.3 minutes, and the average time of actors who took care of children for more than 10 minutes out of 24 hours was 86.9 minutes (46.9%) for men and 125.2 minutes (63.4%) for women. We also find that factors influencing the distribution of time were the need for care and employment status in the case of men, and the age, employment status, number of adults in the household and number of teens in the household in the case of women. Caring for grandchildren had no effect on grandfathers in terms of dissatisfaction with life, level of fatigue, and lack of time. However, it affected grandmothers in terrms of level of fatigue and lack of time.
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KEYWORD
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middle and old aged, caring, grandchildren, gender differences, quality of life
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