Beyond Parenting Socialization Years: The Relationship between Parenting Dimensions and Grandparenting Functioning

Parental socialization has been studied mainly when is in process, but less is known about its long-term impact on older adults, particularly on one of the most important developmental tasks in later life: being a grandparent. Participants were 313 Spanish grandparents. The present study examined th...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2022-04, Vol.19 (8), p.4528
Main Authors: Gimenez-Serrano, Sofia, Alcaide, Marta, Reyes, Maria, Zacarés, Juan J, Celdrán, Montserrat
Format: Article
Language:English
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Aged
Child
Children
Correlation analysis
Emotions
Grandparents
Humans
Intergenerational Relations
Older people
Parent-Child Relations
Parenting - psychology
Parents & parenting
Pattern analysis
Self esteem
Socialization
Statistical analysis
Teenagers
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Summary:Parental socialization has been studied mainly when is in process, but less is known about its long-term impact on older adults, particularly on one of the most important developmental tasks in later life: being a grandparent. Participants were 313 Spanish grandparents. The present study examined the relationship between parenting and its impacts in the long term, when the child is a grandparent. The variables examined were parenting (parental warmth and parental strictness) and grandparenting functioning (satisfaction with life, meaning of life, parent-adult child relationship quality, emotional closeness with grandchildren, and role overload). The statistical analyses were a correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analyses. A constant pattern between parenting and grandparenting functioning has been found. Warmth was positively associated with grandparenting functioning, as opposed to strictness, which did not show benefits for grandparents and even showed a significant negative relationship with an indicator of grandparenting functioning. Present findings highlight that, during the socialization years, greater parental warmth but not parental strictness might be of benefit for children at the end of their life (i.e., when they are grandparents) but also for their descendants because they have a better relationship with the two following generations (i.e., adult children and grandchildren).
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph19084528