Journal article
Trajectories of Grandparents' Perceived Solidarity with Adult Grandchildren: A Growth Curve Analysis over 23 Years
Journal of marriage and family, Vol.60(4), pp.912-923
11/01/1998
DOI: 10.2307/353634
Abstract
Demographic trends in the US have produced an unprecedented number of grandparents who live long enough to see their grandchildren reach young adulthood & even middle age. In this analysis, data from the Longitudinal Study of Generations are used to identify patterns of change in grandparents' perceptions of affection & in-person contact & geographic proximity with adult grandchildren over five points of measurement between 1971 & 1994. Hierarchical linear modeling reveals quadratic trends in both growth curves. Affection declines over the first 14 years & then modestly reverses. Contact & proximity decline at an accelerating rate. Older grandparents have higher average levels of affection than younger grandparents, but they exhibit sharper rates of decline in contact & proximity over time. When cohorts are equated on age, later cohorts of grandparents decline more rapidly in contact & proximity, suggesting that the grandparent role has changed in recent history. Adapted from the source document.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Trajectories of Grandparents' Perceived Solidarity with Adult Grandchildren: A Growth Curve Analysis over 23 Years
- Creators
- Merril Silverstein - University of Southern CaliforniaJeffrey Long - St. John's University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of marriage and family, Vol.60(4), pp.912-923
- DOI
- 10.2307/353634
- ISSN
- 0022-2445
- eISSN
- 1741-3737
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/01/1998
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Biostatistics
- Record Identifier
- 9984280880502771
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