Parenting stress, well-being, and social support among kinship caregivers

Sharda, Elizabeth; Sutherby, Carolyn G.; Cavanaugh, Daniel L.; Hughes, Anne K.; Woodward, Amanda Toler

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.01.025

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“…Results also suggest that raising grandchildren for more than 1 year were associated with worse mental health. Furthermore, this study found that increased parenting stress was associated with worse mental health, which is also consistent with previous research (Sharda et al, 2019).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Custodial Grandparent’s Job Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Relationship With Parenting Stress and Mental Health

Jedwab

2021

J Appl Gerontol

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Involuntary job loss during the COVID-19 pandemic adds challenges, especially for custodial grandparents that are taking care of grandchildren. Grandparents are relatively vulnerable, and they need more attention and support when facing the negative impacts of COVID-19. This study analyzed cross-sectional survey data collected from 234 custodial grandparents via Qualtrics Panels in June 2020 in the United States. After using the propensity score weighting adjustment, results from logistic and ordinary least squares regression showed that compared with grandparents that did not lose their job during the pandemic, grandparents that did had more parenting stress and worse mental health. Moderation analysis also showed that social support was a significant moderator of the relationship between job loss and mental health, but not the relationship between job loss and parenting stress. The findings and implications are discussed.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Custodial Grandparent’s Job Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Relationship With Parenting Stress and Mental Health

Jedwab

2021

J Appl Gerontol

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“…It is possible that those grandparents that take on the raising of their grandchildren due to child abuse/neglect receive more support, services, and resources from child protective services than grandparents that take on the care of their grandchildren due to parental substance abuse. It could be that these tangible and intangible supports help decrease caregivers’ parenting stress ( Sharda et al, 2019 ). It might be that for grandparents whose trigger event is parental substance abuse, more social services may be provided directly to the biological parents rather than the children ( Renk et al, 2016 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, Ross and Aday (2006) found that 92 % of custodial grandparents identified clinically significant levels of parenting stress among African American grandparents. Previous studies identified some risk factors associated with parenting stress among grandparent kinship providers, which included lack of economic resources ( Butler & Zakari, 2005 ; Minkler & Fuller-Thomson, 2005 ), unmet family needs ( Lee et al, 2016 ), poor health and emotional well-being of caregivers ( Gerard, Landry-Meyer, & Guzell Roe, 2006 ; Leder, Grinstead, & Torres, 2007 ; Lee et al, 2016 ), grandchildren’s behavioral problems ( Gerard et al, 2006 ; Leake, Wood, Bussey, & Strolin-Goltzman, 2019 ; Smith & Palmieri, 2007 ), lack of social support ( Butler & Zakari, 2005 ; Leder et al, 2007 ; Sands & Goldberg‐Glen, 2000 ; Sharda, Sutherby, Cavanaugh, Hughes, & Woodward, 2019 ), lack of family competence (e.g., family’s inability to solve problems, express emotions, and facilitate individual autonomy; Gleeson, Hsieh, & Cryer-Coupet, 2016 ), and the transition to become primary caregivers for grandchildren ( Landry-Meyer & Newman, 2004 ; Orb & Davey, 2005 ). Prior research has indicated that a high level of caregivers’ parenting stress is associated with an increased likelihood of child abuse and neglect ( Holden & Banez, 1996 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Material hardship and parenting stress among grandparent kinship providers during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of grandparents’ mental health

Levkoff

et al. 2020

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Background The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of many families, including grandparent kinship families, to deal with a health/economic crisis. The fear of COVID-19 plus stay-at-home orders have increased individuals’ psychological distress. Moreover, school closures and homeschooling further increased parenting stress among caregivers. Objectives This study examined the relationship between material hardship and parenting stress among grandparent kinship providers, and assessed grandparents’ mental health as a potential mediator to this relationship during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Participants and setting Grandparent kinship providers (N = 362) that took primary care of their grandchildren participated in a cross-sectional survey via Qualtrics Panels in June 2020 in the United States. Methods Descriptive and bivariate analyses, binary logistic regression, and mediation analyses were conducted using STATA 15.0. Results Suffering material hardship was significantly associated with higher odds of experiencing parenting stress among grandparent kinship providers, and grandparents’ mental health partially mediated this association. Conclusions Addressing material and mental health needs among grandparent kinship providers is critical to decreasing their parenting stress.

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“…Further, emotional support could also predict subjective well-being significantly (Morelli et al, 2015;Wang et al, 2021). Social support was positively associated with well-being (Sharda et al, 2019). And the positive effect of social support on the well-being should also be highlighted to healthcare professionals (Khusaifan and El Keshky, 2020).…”

Section: Social Support and Subjective Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 93%

Social support and subjective well-being among postgraduate medical students: the mediating role of anxiety and the moderating role of alcohol and tobacco use

Huang

Zhang

Wang

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Heliyon

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Medical students often face pressures from various sources in the course of postgraduate studies, and these factors have a negative impact on their subjective well-being. Previous researches have revealed that social support is a vital factor influencing subjective well-being, but unfortunately the underlying mechanism for this is unclear, especially for postgraduate medical students. The current study has inspected the effects of social support on subjective well-being of postgraduate medical students, the mediating role of anxiety and the moderating role of alcohol and tobacco use in the association between social support and subjective well-being of postgraduate medical students. A sample of 900 postgraduate medical students (Mage ¼ 27.01 years, SD ¼ 3.33) from The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University completed the Social Support Rating Scale, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, the Tobacco and Alcohol Use Questionnaire and the Subjective Well-Being Scale. Analysis of the structural equation model revealed that anxiety partially mediated the relationship between social support and subjective well-being of postgraduate medical students, while alcohol and tobacco use moderated the relationship between anxiety and subjective well-being of postgraduate medical students. This study revealed how social support act upon subjective well-being of postgraduate medical students. This study provides a theoretical basis for promoting and enhancing the subjective well-being of postgraduate medical students.

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Parenting stress, well-being, and social support among kinship caregivers

Cited by 26 publications

References 27 publications

Custodial Grandparent’s Job Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Relationship With Parenting Stress and Mental Health

Custodial Grandparent’s Job Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Relationship With Parenting Stress and Mental Health

Material hardship and parenting stress among grandparent kinship providers during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of grandparents’ mental health

Social support and subjective well-being among postgraduate medical students: the mediating role of anxiety and the moderating role of alcohol and tobacco use

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