Grandparents Raising Grandchildren：the Social Support and Psychological Well-being of Grandparents

• Main Author: 黃月霜
• Other Authors: 林如萍
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11858901264270196930

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 人類發展與家庭學系 === 98 === 　　The purpose of this paper is to investigate the social support and psychological well-being of grandparents who raise their grandchildren educated in Taoyuan County elementary school higher grades and junior high school first to third grades through a survey of samples. A total of 405 samples was recovered through purposive sampling. Findings of the study indicate are as follows: 1.In the families of grandparents raising their grandchildren, the result reveals that the female takes more duty in caring their grandchildren than the male and paternal grandparents take more duty than maternal grandparents do. The major cause for raising their grandchildren of the grandparents is divorce. The next cause is the fact that their parents are so busy on jobs that they cannot take care of their children. The third cause is the death of either side of their parents or the death of both parents. 2.The social support of grandparents and the factors: The social support of grandparents are emotional/informational support, tangible support, affectionate support, and positive social interaction support. The following are the factors: (1)Emotional/ informational support: the degree of grandparents’ emotional/ informational support would become higher when grandparents are more healthy, their income come from their children, from retirement pay or insurance benefits, or when it’s with better economic situation and with fewer external behavior problems of their grandchildren. (2)Tangible support: when grandparents are more healthy, with better economic situation, it will cause fewer external behavior problems of their grandchildren. The major cause for families of grandparents raising their grandchildren is the fact that their parents are so busy on jobs, which will cause higher tangible support from their grandparents. (3)Affectionate support: When grandparents are more healthy and grandchildren are older and the major cause for families of grandparents raising their grandchildren is that their parents are so busy on jobs, the degree of grandparents’ affectionate support are higher. (4)Positive social interaction support: When grandparents are more healthy, it will cause fewer external behavior problems of grandchildren. When living together with families, the degree of grandparents’ positive social interaction support will become higher. 3.In short, the well-being of grandparents is quite good in families of grandparents raising their grandchildren. Factors of well-being of grandparents, economic situation, emotional/ informational support, affectionate support, and positive social interaction support of grandparents can fully explain the mental relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, which is based on the variables of grandchildren, grandparents and family backgrounds and their grandparents’ parenting methods.