The Implications of Providing Grandchild Care for Grandparents’ Marital Quality

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (12) ◽  
pp. 2476-2501
Author(s):  
Shuangshuang Wang ◽  
Jan E. Mutchler

This study distinguished among types of grandchild care (i.e., co-residence, high and low levels of babysitting, and no care), and examined their associations with grandparents’ marital quality. The sample consisted of 7,267 married grandparents aged 40 years and over from the 2008, 2010, and 2012 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Providing grandchild care generally undermined grandparents’ marital quality; however, different types of grandchild care affected different aspects of marital quality. The negative effects of providing grandchild care were more pronounced among grandmothers than grandfathers. Grandmothers providing high-level babysitting care were at especially higher risk of experiencing marital strain among the caregiver groups. Findings suggest that providing grandchild care appears to be more of a stressor than a source of reward with respect to shaping grandparents’ marital quality. Sensitivity to such impact on marital quality may be usefully incorporated into developing supports and services meant for grandparent caregivers.

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 605-605
Author(s):  
Rachel Donnelly

Abstract Precarious work – work that is unstable and insecure – is often stressful and may contribute to marital strain and dissolution among midlife adults. However, prior research has not considered how precarious work spills over to spouses. Using longitudinal dyadic data of midlife couples from the Health and Retirement Study, I examine whether having a spouse in precarious work is associated with marital strain and dissolution, with attention to differences by gender. I find that indicators of precarious work (job insecurity, schedule variability) are associated with a heightened risk of marital strain and divorce in midlife. These patterns depend on the gender of the spouse experiencing precarious work. Understanding the implications of precarious work for marriage is important because poor marital quality and divorce hasten health declines at older ages. Thus, this study suggests that precarious work may be a risk factor for divorce and poor health among aging adults.


2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 832-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Whisman ◽  
Angela Li ◽  
David A. Sbarra ◽  
Charles L. Raison

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 231-231
Author(s):  
Dawn Carr

Abstract The type of work older adults engage in has potential to play a key role in shaping health and wellbeing. In this presentation, using data drawn from an O*NET crosswalk linked with the Health and Retirement Study, I show how different types of transitions out of the workforce shapes cognitive function differently for individuals retiring from different types of occupations. Based on a factor analysis of 36 job-related abilities, activities, and contexts, this paper shows that retirement has a more significant consequence for cognitive function for those who retire from jobs with low levels of cognitive complexity, but no significant consequences for those who retire from jobs with high levels of cognitive complexity. I discuss these results in the context of the ways in which O*NET classifications of jobs can provide critical insights into the potential influence of changing retirement trajectories on wellbeing in later life.


2020 ◽  
pp. 188-208
Author(s):  
O. P. Sosniuk ◽  
І. Yu. Vlasiuk

The article is devoted to the analysis of the results of empirical research of psychosemantic features of perception of animation advertising by the representatives of the youth target audience. Differences in the perception of animation advertising between representatives of three age groups within the youth target audience were established. The authors identified four factors (“Confidence”, “Attractiveness”, “Trust”, “Consumer Activity”), which are manifested in the perception of animation advertising by young teens (12-15 y.o.). At the same time, for аdolescence teens (16-19 y.o.) and youth (20-24 y.o.) there are three factors (“Confidence”, “Attractiveness”, “Consumer activity”), which determine their attitude to animation advertising. The peculiarities of young people's attitude to animation advertising with different types of graphics (2-D, 3-D, combined) and consumer motivation of this target audience are revealed. It has been identified that commercials based on the use of 3-D graphics are evaluated by representatives of the youth audience (of all age groups) most positively and often make them want to buy the products of the advertised brand. Commercials based on the use of 2-D graphics technology attract the most attention of younger teens (12-15 y.o.) and create the appropriate consumer motivation. The commercials created on the basis of the combined graphics are the least interesting to the representatives of the youth target audience. However, the ideas underlying such advertising are the most understandable for youth, and the advertising itself is perceived as relevant and evokes a sense of trust in the product and brand. The connection between the level of emotional intelligence and creativity with the peculiarities of the perception of animation advertising is revealed. Subjects with higher level of emotional intelligence rate animation graphics in advertising more positively than people with low levels of emotional intelligence. Representatives of the youth target audience (all age groups) with high levels of emotional intelligence are most sensitive to animation advertising using 3-D graphics. A similar trend is observed in subjects with a high level of creativity, rate commercials using 3-D graphics higher and perceive it more positively (compared with subjects with lower level of creativity). It is established that young teenagers (12-15 y.o.) with a high level of creativity also positively perceive animation advertising using 2-D graphics technology. Prospects for further research include a more detailed study of the perception of animation advertising with different types of graphics by different age groups, determining the relationship between the perception of animation advertising and the value-semantic sphere of the personality of consumers.


1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 1887-1895 ◽  
Author(s):  
B J Levine ◽  
T J Liu ◽  
W F Marzluff ◽  
A I Skoultchi

Histone proteins are encoded by a multigene family. The H3.2(614) and H2a(614) genes are present as single copies which are expressed at high levels, accounting for 30 to 40% of the H3 and H2a mRNAs, respectively, in different types of mouse cells. The other genes which have been isolated each contribute only a very small amount to the total type-specific mRNA pool. We demonstrate here that the differences in the level of expression of these genes are partly due to differences in their transcription rates. To investigate the sequences responsible for these differences in expression among the members of each family, we carried out DNA-mediated gene transfer experiments with both intact and chimeric histone genes. The 5' region of a highly expressed gene [H3.2(614) or H2a(614)] was attached to the 3' region of a histone gene which was expressed at low levels (H3-221 or H2a-291) and vice versa. The results show that sequences in both the 5' and 3' regions of the H3.2(614) and H2a(614) genes contribute to their high level of mRNA production by two independent mechanisms. The effect of the 3' sequences on mRNA accumulation has been narrowed to a 65-base-pair region including the 3'-terminal palindrome and downstream signal implicated in mRNA processing.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Stephany

The undesirable outcomes linked to high levels of income inequality are numerous. The existing literature argues that negative effects of inequality are channelled by low levels of trust. This study gives evidence that trust in government organisations diminishes in an environment of high inequality. With the introduction of a subjective measure of how individuals perceive income inequality, past limitations in quantifying the underlying mechanism between inequality and trust are addressed. A significant negative association between perceived inequality and trust in political institutions, like the government and the EU, is found using a sample of 27 European countries. Additionally, the negative interaction effect of perceived and actual income inequality with institutional trust appears to be stronger for individuals with previously low levels of trust and is weakened for citizens with a predicted high level of confidence in government institutions.


1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 1887-1895
Author(s):  
B J Levine ◽  
T J Liu ◽  
W F Marzluff ◽  
A I Skoultchi

Histone proteins are encoded by a multigene family. The H3.2(614) and H2a(614) genes are present as single copies which are expressed at high levels, accounting for 30 to 40% of the H3 and H2a mRNAs, respectively, in different types of mouse cells. The other genes which have been isolated each contribute only a very small amount to the total type-specific mRNA pool. We demonstrate here that the differences in the level of expression of these genes are partly due to differences in their transcription rates. To investigate the sequences responsible for these differences in expression among the members of each family, we carried out DNA-mediated gene transfer experiments with both intact and chimeric histone genes. The 5' region of a highly expressed gene [H3.2(614) or H2a(614)] was attached to the 3' region of a histone gene which was expressed at low levels (H3-221 or H2a-291) and vice versa. The results show that sequences in both the 5' and 3' regions of the H3.2(614) and H2a(614) genes contribute to their high level of mRNA production by two independent mechanisms. The effect of the 3' sequences on mRNA accumulation has been narrowed to a 65-base-pair region including the 3'-terminal palindrome and downstream signal implicated in mRNA processing.


2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 107-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klea Faniko ◽  
Till Burckhardt ◽  
Oriane Sarrasin ◽  
Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi ◽  
Siri Øyslebø Sørensen ◽  
...  

Abstract. Two studies carried out among Albanian public-sector employees examined the impact of different types of affirmative action policies (AAPs) on (counter)stereotypical perceptions of women in decision-making positions. Study 1 (N = 178) revealed that participants – especially women – perceived women in decision-making positions as more masculine (i.e., agentic) than feminine (i.e., communal). Study 2 (N = 239) showed that different types of AA had different effects on the attribution of gender stereotypes to AAP beneficiaries: Women benefiting from a quota policy were perceived as being more communal than agentic, while those benefiting from weak preferential treatment were perceived as being more agentic than communal. Furthermore, we examined how the belief that AAPs threaten men’s access to decision-making positions influenced the attribution of these traits to AAP beneficiaries. The results showed that men who reported high levels of perceived threat, as compared to men who reported low levels of perceived threat, attributed more communal than agentic traits to the beneficiaries of quotas. These findings suggest that AAPs may have created a backlash against its beneficiaries by emphasizing gender-stereotypical or counterstereotypical traits. Thus, the framing of AAPs, for instance, as a matter of enhancing organizational performance, in the process of policy making and implementation, may be a crucial tool to countering potential backlash.


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