The relations between child-rearing involvement intergenerational co-rearing for grandmothers and mothers in dual-earner families

• Main Authors: Ko Hui, 葛惠
• Other Authors: Chen Roh-lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91100838286252093528

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 兒童與家庭學系碩士班 === 95 === The main objective of this study aims to discern the relation between child-rearing involvement intergenerational co-rearing for grandmothers and mothers in dual-earner families, in turn to explore the differences in child-rearing involvement and intergenerational co-rearing for grandmothers and mothers. The impact that background information, child-rearing involvement of the grandmother and mother, has toward intergenerational co-rearing is also explored. The study adopts the questionnaire interview method by focusing on grandmothers assisting in co-rearing grandchildren in dual-earner families who at least have one young child aged 2 to 6 alongside whose daughter-in-law. The study adopts the “child-rearing involvement for grandmothers and mothers” measurement chart and the “Intergenerational co-rearing for grandmothers and mothers” measurement chart as the study tools. With interview subjects focusing on grandmothers, who may have difficulties reading the questionnaire, the study has adopted the one-on-one interview method, with which to conduct the interview, and collected a total of 377 valid questionnaires. The study data are analyzed by using statistical methods, including the descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. The key findings are as follows, I. The grandmother’s child-rearing involvement and the mother’s child-rearing involvement tend to manifest in the form of offering warmth and encouragement, but less in providing diverse experience and stimulants. II. The grandmother reported that the mother’s child-rearing involvement are found to exceed the grandmother’s child-rearing involvement, which reveals that the child’s mother in a dual-earner family remains the primary child caregiver. III. Grandmother’s and mother’s education has significant association with supportive behaviors of intergenerational co-rearing for grandmothers and mothers. IV. Mother’s age has significant association with supportive and unsupportive behaviors of intergenerational co-rearing for grandmothers and mothers. V. In “child-rearing involvement for grandmothers and mothers”, generally, the behaviors of mature requirements and warmth and encouragement both have significant effects on intergenerational co-rearing, however, and the background variables have no significant effect. At last, the study proposes recommendations, based on the study findings, offering reference points to the family educators in intergenerational co-rearing for grandmothers and mothers in developing family education, and a feasible direction to future researchers.