The Associations between Early-Life Grandparenting Experience and Multidimensional Development of Adults

IF 2 3区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Child Indicators Research Pub Date : 2024-08-21 DOI:10.1007/s12187-024-10163-0

Yichun Yang, Donghong Xie

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Grandparenthood has been a research focal point for gerontologists since the early 1980s. While most research focuses on systematically examining the effects of grandparenting on older adults, little is known about the long-term effects on child development. This study aims to examine the long-term effects of grandparenting on individual multidimensional development and distinguishes the critical period of grandparenting from life-course perspective. Drawing on a nationally representative sample from the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS), we use ordinary least squares (OLS) and logit models to examine the associations between early-life (aged 0–15 years) grandparenting and multidimensional development in adulthood. Results show that early experience of grandparenting has profound adverse effects on later development: early childhood (preschool/0–6 years) is the critical period in terms of later mental health, non-cognitive ability. In addition, the cumulative effect is confirmed that the longer the duration of grandparenting, the greater the cumulative disadvantages in individual development. Our findings provide empirical support for views of grandparenting effect from a life-course perspective and highlight the enduring impact of early grandparenting to later multidimensional development of adult, as well as the important role of timing and cumulative effects of grandparenting.

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早年祖辈养育经验与成人多维发展之间的关系

自 20 世纪 80 年代初以来，祖父母身份一直是老年学专家的研究重点。虽然大多数研究都集中于系统地考察祖辈养育对老年人的影响，但对儿童发展的长期影响却知之甚少。本研究旨在探讨祖辈养育对个体多维发展的长期影响，并从生命历程的角度区分祖辈养育的关键时期。我们以中国劳动力动态调查（CLDS）中具有全国代表性的样本为基础，使用普通最小二乘法（OLS）和对数模型（Logit）研究了生命早期（0-15 岁）祖辈养育与成年后多维发展之间的关联。结果表明，祖辈养育的早期经历对日后的发展有深远的不利影响：幼儿期（学龄前/0-6 岁）是日后心理健康和非认知能力的关键时期。此外，累积效应也得到了证实，即祖辈养育时间越长，对个人发展的累积不利影响就越大。我们的研究结果为从生命历程角度看待祖辈养育效应提供了实证支持，并强调了早期祖辈养育对成人日后多维发展的持久影响，以及祖辈养育的时间和累积效应的重要作用。

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Child Indicators Research SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-

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4.90

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14.30%

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103

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