Autori
Yang, Yazhen
Evandrou, Maria
Vlachantoni, Athina

Titolo
The impact of grandchild care provision on grandparents’ depressive symptoms across Europe using multi-level analysis: do the grandchild caring patterns and the country’s economy matter?
Periodico
Genus
Anno: 2022 - Volume: 78 - Fascicolo: 12 - Pagina iniziale: 1 - Pagina finale: 22

Little research has examined the cross-national diferences in the impact of grandchild care provision on the grandparents’ depression, by taking into account of both macroand micro-level factors. This study used a unique grandchild caring pattern variable in order to examine the efect of the changes in the intensity of grandchild caring on the grandparents’ depressive symptoms in European countries, and whether the grandparents’ country level economy infuenced such efect. Longitudinal data derived from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe 2010–2018 covered 13 countries and 24,656 grandparents aged 50–90. Multi-level linear regression analyses with REML estimation were used. This study found that providing grandchild care had a protective efect against grandparents’ depressive symptoms in both lower and higher income countries. Moreover, providing more intensive grandchild care reduced the grandparents’ depressive symptoms to a greater extent in lower income countries than higher income countries. In addition, grandmothers benefted more from grandchild caring than grandfathers, and the gender gap in the efects of grandchild care provision on one’s depressive symptoms was wider in lower income countries than higher income countries in Europe. Future research can further investigate the mechanisms behind such results. The research fndings can be used to develop targeted interventions aimed at grandparents providing childcare of diferent intensity



SICI: 0016-6987(2022)78:12<1:TIOGCP>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Testo completo: https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-022-00160-y

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