A Study of Perceived Grandparents’ Involvement, Filial Role, and Relationship Closeness between Grandparents and Grandchildren among Junior High School Students in Taipei City

• Main Authors: KUO,WEN-LING, 郭玟伶
• Other Authors: Shun-Tzu Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93989554881892804242

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 生活應用科學系碩士在職專班 === 102 === The purpose of the study was to investigate the perceived grandparents’ involvement, filial role, and intergenerational relationship closeness among grandchildren. The researcher also attempted to examine the effects of gender, age, living distance, contact frequency, and parent-child relationships on intergenerational relationship closeness between grandparents and grandchildren. Questionnaire method was used to conduct the empirical research on Junior High School Students in Taipei City in the academic year of 2013. The researcher used convenience sampling procedure to recruit participants. A total of 997 valid questionnaires were obtained. The questionnaire consists of 76 items and the instruments include “demographic information,” “grandparents’ involvement scale,” “filial perception and conduct scale,” and “relationship closeness scale between grandparents and grandchildren.” The data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, K-means clustering, Pearson’s correlations, and multiple regression. Findings were concluded as follows: 1. Significant differences were found on intergenerational relationship closeness on age, living distance, contact frequency, and parent-child relationship (p < .05). 2. Significant differences were found on intergenerational relationship closeness on perceived grandparents’ involvement, and filial role and conduct (p < .05). 3. Significant positive relationships were found between perceived grandparents’ involvement, and filial role and conduct (α = .52 - .64, .20 - .29, .25 - .37, p < .05). 4. Significant predictive power of intergenerational relationship closeness was found on “degrees of close relationships with grandmothers,” “living distance between the grandparents who had the most frequent interactions with the participant,” and “frequency of interactions between the grandparents who had the most frequent interactions with the participant” (R2 = .29). 5. Significant predictive power of intergenerational relationship closeness was also found on perceived grandparents’ involvements, and perceived filial roles and conducts (R2 = .41, .08, .14). The researcher provide related feedback and suggestions to parents, schools, educational agencies, and interested researchers based on research findings.