01:830:335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Adult Development, Role Theory, Dementia
14 Dec 2016
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Lecture 19 - social roles social relationships 3. Students rate grandparents based on emotional closeness, time spent together, and resources provided. Your data: when teenagers live in single-parent home, a good relationship with grandparents is related to fewer difficulties and distress. Grandmother effect: prese(cid:374)(cid:272)e of gra(cid:374)d(cid:373)others predi(cid:272)tive of (cid:272)hildre(cid:374)"s survival through re(cid:272)orded history. Social groups with more grandparents had more help in birthing, caregiving, and knowledge transmission: grandmothers have a purpose, helping around with household tasks and mother child- rearing (they are experts in such) Gender and caregiving: who provides care: who lives close, daughters and daughters-in-law more likely to take care of parent in poor health (females), brothers are ofte(cid:374) (cid:862)helpers(cid:863) a(cid:374)d/or (cid:862)(cid:272)oproviders(cid:863) Impact of caregiving: caregivers of elderly parents report more depressive symptoms, lower marital satisfaction, and other caregiver burdens. Siblings: moderate emotional closeness is most common pattern of sibling relationships in adulthood.
