Role Of Grandmothers Research Articles

Психологическое благополучие подростка: личностные качества и семейные отношения (по материалам зарубежных исследований)

<p style="text-align: justify;">The review is focused on results of recent investigations concerned with the problem of psychological well-being and elucidation of main factors of psychological well-being formation in adolescents. Different approaches to the study of the concept of psychological well-being, both domestic and foreign are listed. A major emphasis of review is placed on links between psychological well-being and personal traits as well as family relationships. The analyzed papers pay special attention to such personal traits as perfectionism and mindfulness as an ability to realize and reflect one’s own activity. It was shown that psychological well-being positively correlated with mindfulness, self-compassion, cognitive flexibility, and negatively correlated with high scores of perfectionisms. Some investigations present new important data about effects of conflicts between children and parents on adolescents’ well-being. Psychotherapeutic roles of grandmothers and grandfathers in life of adolescents are analyzed, particularly in dysfunctional families. The common position of the set of analyzed papers is the assertion of necessity to investigate effects of family on adolescents’ psychological well-being, regarding a family, including all its members belonging to all generations, as a whole.</p>

Coaching Nenek ASI dalam Penerapan Massage Effleurage menggunakan Jitu Oil dengan Terapi Murottal Al-Qur'an untuk Mendukung Pemberian ASI Eksklusif

Background: Choosing Breastfeeding Grandmothers is an effort to maximize the role of grandmothers in making exclusive breastfeeding a success. So far, grandmothers are the people in the family who are considered more capable and have a lot of experience, especially in caring for babies. This is the basis for this service in order to maximize the role of grandmothers in helping breastfeeding mothers provide good nutrition to their babies. Objectives There is an increase in knowledge, changing attitudes and behavior of breastfeeding grandmothers in the application of effleurage massage using Jitu oil to support exclusive breastfeeding and interaction and sharing of information through coaching breastfeeding grandmothers in the application of Effleurage Massage using Jitu Oil to support exclusive breastfeeding. Method Training implementation time January 26, 2024, mentoring implementation January 27 - February 26, 2024. The location of the activity is at the Lamongan Arjasa Village Hall. Method using PAR (Participatory Action Research), Results: This activity was attended by 19 grandmothers and 19 breastfeeding mothers. At the time of Choosing 12 people had good knowledge, 4 had sufficient knowledge, and 3 people had less. At the time of post-mentoring, 14 people had good skills, 3 people had sufficient knowledge and 2 people had less. Conclusion: The Choosing and mentoring activities carried out can increase knowledge and improve the skills of Grandmothers in performing Massage Effluerage massage to help relax the body of breastfeeding mothers.

A qualitative study exploring the perception and role of grandmothers in the feeding of grandchildren aged 3~5 years

A qualitative study exploring the perception and role of grandmothers in the feeding of grandchildren aged 3~5 years

Connecting With Shosho: Assessing the Role of Grandmothers in a Low-Income Population in Nairobi, Kenya

Connecting With Shosho: Assessing the Role of Grandmothers in a Low-Income Population in Nairobi, Kenya

Overcoming coloniality in adolescent health programmes: harnessing cultural values and the indigenous roles of grandmothers to promote girls’ holistic development in Senegal

ABSTRACT Decolonial and feminist scholars have long pointed out that theory and praxis in global health and gender and development employ models of gender and social change that are Euro-North-American-centric and fit poorly with cultural realities and community dynamics in the global South. Interventions informed by these biases are often minimally effective and can cause backlash or resistance. In this paper, we unpack how coloniality informs some of the dominant approaches used by major organisations to improve the health and well-being of adolescent girls, and why they can result in ineffective and sometimes harmful interventions. The limitations of these approaches include top-down imposed objectives and pathways to change; individualist, sexist, ageist, and modernist biases; and ignorance or denigration of local cultural values, resources, and family and community dynamics. Instead, we present the Girls’ Holistic Development (GHD) programme – implemented by NGO The Grandmother Project – Change Through Culture (GMP) in Senegal since 2009 – as a decolonial alternative. The GHD is informed by theories and methodologies from participatory and community development; anthropology; family and community systems theory; community, cultural, and Indigenous psychology; and transformative learning/adult education. Results show that GMP has contributed to shifting social norms underpinning child and forced marriage, female genital cutting, adolescent pregnancy, and premature school-leaving because its approach offers an alternative decolonial vision of, and method of achieving, adolescent girls’ development. The key facets of this approach are that it is culturally affirming, inter-generational, grandmother-inclusive, assets-based, and rooted in building community capacity and consensus for change towards locally defined objectives.

Grandmothers - a cultural resource for women and children's health and well-being across the life cycle.

Grandmothers exist in all societies. Especially in the non-western Majority World, where Elders are both highly respected and responsible for transmitting their knowledge to younger generations, there is extensive anecdotal evidence of Grandmothers' role in health promotion and healing. However, due to Eurocentric and reductionist views of families and communities, in the extensive past research on maternal, child and adolescent health issues across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, and in Indigenous societies in North America, Australia and New Zealand, scant attention has been given to the role of Grandmothers. This paper addresses this oversight and supports the imperative to decolonize health promotion in the non-western world by building on non-western worldviews, roles and values. Based on an eclectic body of both published and gray literature, this review presents extensive evidence of Grandmothers' involvement across the life cycle of women and children and of the similar core roles that they play across cultures. While in some cases Grandmothers have a negative influence, in most cases their involvement and support to younger women and children is beneficial in terms of both their advisory and their caregiving roles. For future research and interventions addressing maternal, child and adolescent health, the conclusions of this review provide strong support for: adoption of a family systems framework to identify both gender-specific and generation-specific roles and influence; and the inclusion of Grandmothers in community health promotion programs dealing with different phases of the life cycle of women and children.

Coparenting relationship, parenting self‐efficacy, and child adjustment in Chinese mother–grandmother coparenting families: Grandmother role difference

AbstractObjectiveThe study tested the grandmother role difference hypothesis (GRDH) in Chinese three‐generation families by investigating the effects of mothers' and grandmothers' perceptions of the coparenting relationship on child adjustment and the potential mediating effect of parenting self‐efficacy.BackgroundMother–grandmother coparenting has become the prevalent parenting mode in urban China, yet previous studies have failed to recognize the differences between the grandmothers by lineage. By reviewing biological theories and sociological contexts, this study proposed the GRDH. The hypothesis posited that in addition to maternal grandmother's benefits on grandchildren over paternal grandmother due to biological drives, maternal and paternal grandmothers exert their effect on child outcomes disparately by developing different relationships with the mother in coparenting.MethodIn total, 409 mother–grandmother coparenting families were recruited. Two identical structural equation models were examined separately for maternal and paternal grandmother groups.ResultsThe results of multigroup analysis showed a stronger direct effect by maternal grandmother's perception of coparenting relationship than paternal grandmother on child social competence. The relation between maternal parenting self‐efficacy and child social competence was stronger in households with paternal grandmothers. Furthermore, the mothers' evaluation of the coparenting relationship had a significant spillover effect on the paternal grandmother's parenting self‐efficacy only. The findings also showed the exclusive mediating effect of maternal parenting self‐efficacy linking the mother's perception of the coparenting relationship to child problem behavior in the mother–paternal grandmother group only.Conclusion and implicationsThe results overall validated the GRDH while providing further contextual information on the roles of mothers and grandmothers in different types of coparenting families.

Feeding grandchildren: competing priorities and blurred relational boundaries

ABSTRACT With grandparents providing increasing amounts of childcare, through the lens of food, this paper explores how the provision of regular childcare may be blurring the boundaries of the grandmother role. Drawing on semi-structured, photo elicitation interviews with 23 white British grandparents who regularly look after their grandchildren aged 11 years and under, we demonstrate that there were sometimes competing priorities and tensions between grandmothers and their grandchildren’s parents when it came to feeding children. While the parents’ “intensive feeding” preferences seemed to be shaped by intensive parenting culture, the grandmothers prioritized using eating occasions as an arena for socialization and fostering culinary capital in their grandchildren. Furthermore, while the grandmothers described building bonds with their grandchildren through the provision of treats, there was evidence that the type of foods that were used as treats, or the frequency of their provision, sometimes led to tension with parents. Overall, the data on child feeding shows that grandmothers found their role to be in a constant state of flux, as their assumed authority varied depending on who was present. We consequently conclude that grandmothering is complex, and situationally defined, particularly for those who provide regular care for their grandchildren.

The Other Erica

In this essay, Erica Goss reflects on the character of her German grandmother, after whom she was named and whose short life spanned a collection of disasters, including both world wars. Goss looks at the research into the role of grandmothers in human development, speculating on how her grandmother could have affected the lives of her children and grandchildren if she had survived.

Grandparents' Professional and Educational Activity: A Positive or Negative Impact on Relationships with Grandchildren?

'Baby boomers' are the first generation whose representatives-both male and female-are, to a great extent, or plan to be, professionally active in their old age. Increased professional activity of this group influences family relations and the perception of the roles of grandmothers and grandfathers. This article attempts to assess the impact of grandparents' professional and educational activity on relationships with grandchildren. The study relies on data from an international comparative survey conducted using the CAWI method in representative groups of Internet users from seven European countries and a proprietary questionnaire. The study was conducted in May 2022, and the total research sample included 3008 people. The analysis covered answers to the questions on the perceived impact of grandparents' activity on the performance of family roles. To analyze the results, tests of the equality of means (t-test, ANOVA) were used to check for differences in assessments due to respondents' characteristics. The use of exploratory factor analysis made it possible to distinguish two groups of factors-those having a positive impact on the relationship with grandchildren and those having a negative one. The SEM (structural equation modeling) model was used to find an answer to the question of which factor-positive or negative-has a greater impact on trust in grandparents as carers. The results of the conducted analyses indicated the existence of statistically significant differences in the perception of the role of grandmothers and grandfathers due to such characteristics of the respondents as age, gender, or country of residence. It is possible to conclude that positive perceptions of grandparents' professional and educational activity encourage greater confidence in them in the context of performing family roles.

Celoživotní cesta k roli babičky. Počáteční faktory utvářející individuální pojetí role babičky

Several factors that influence playing the role of grandparent are described in the scientific literature. Basically, these factors contribute to forming the grandparent’s role at the time when the role is played. This article takes a different approach to the topic. It considers factors shaping the grandparent’s role in the past, not in the present. Consistent with this approach, the article deals with family factors that contribute to the shaping of the grandmother’s role. The aim of this article is to answer the question: among the interviewed women, what roles do the figures of grandmothers play in shaping conceptions of the role of grandmother? For this purpose, interviews conducted with eight women who had personal experience with the role of grandmother were analyzed. The article identifies two family factors mentioned in the grandmothers’ narratives: upbringing and grandmothers’ patterns. These factors were the first to shape individual conceptions of the future grandmother’s role. In the women’s lives, these factors affected the role of grandmother long before the women became grandmothers. The article points out specific aspects of the role of a grandmother that are influenced by these factors.

Grandmother role in Poland in a longitudinal perspective

Despite the fact that being a grandmother lasts longer and remains significant, relatively few empirical studies focus on the experience of being a grandmother in Poland today. Drawing on the findings of a qualitative longitudinal study, this article fills this knowledge gap and demonstrates a temporal evolution of the ‘grandmother’ social role. The results not only present the reflections connected to awaiting the first grandchild, but also describe the aspects of practical fulfillment of the grandmother role for the first time. The interviewed first-time grandmothers were navigating a repertoire of various social roles and, as grandmothers, they were mostly operating through company and engagement with their grandchildren.

PENERAPAN PERAN NENEK TERHADAP PEMBERIAN MAKANAN PENDAMPING ASI

Proper feeding practices are of fundamental importance to the survival, growth, development, health and nutrition of infants and children. Complementary food for breast milk (MP ASI) is additional food given to infants after the age of 6 months to the age of 24 months to meet nutritional needs other than breast milk. Breast milk should still be given to babies, at least until the age of 24 months. The role of supplementary food is not as a substitute for breast milk but to complement or accompany breast milk. Support factors for other family members, including grandmothers who give advice according to the culture and habits of the local community, such as giving water, banana honey to babies or other foods that are not suitable for the child's age, are still difficult to eliminate, and can also influence the practice of early complementary feeding so that it affects the growth and development of children. . The purpose of this study was to analyze the application of the role of grandmothers in complementary feeding. The design used in this study was cross sectional. Population All mothers who have babies 0-12 months in Gading Village are 46 people. The sample in this study are all mothers who have babies 0-12 months in Gading Village totaling 46 people. The sampling technique used is total sampling. The measuring instrument used in this study was a questionnaire to measure the role of grandmothers. Univariate data analysis using frequency distribution. Bivariate data analysis using chi square. The results of the study obtained a value of value = 0.000 which means it is smaller than 0.05 so that the influence of the application of the role of grandmothers on the provision of complementary feeding

Beyond the mother-child dyad: Is co-residence with a grandmother associated with adolescent girls' family planning knowledge?

In South Asian countries, adolescent girls are generally embedded in multigenerational households. Nevertheless, public health research continues to focus on the nuclear family and overlook the role of grandmothers in adolescent socialization and the transfer of health information. This study compares family planning knowledge of adolescent girls in households with and without a resident grandmother. Two main types of family planning knowledge were assessed: (1) modern contraceptive knowledge and (2) healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy knowledge. This study is a secondary data analysis of the 2017 Suaahara II cross-sectional survey in 16 of Nepal's 77 districts. Family planning knowledge among 769 adolescent girls was assessed and compared between those living with a grandmother (n = 330) and those not living with a grandmother (n = 439). An analysis of the relationship between co-residence and family planning knowledge was carried out using multivariate logistic regression, adjusting for potential confounders and clustering. Additionally, we used the same method to analyze the association between grandmothers' family planning knowledge and that of co-resident adolescents. The odds of correct adolescent modern family planning knowledge were 1.81 (95% CI = 1.27,2.58) times higher in households with a grandmother. The study also identified higher odds of adolescent knowledge of modern contraceptives in households where grandmothers also had correct knowledge (OR 2.00, 95%, CI = 0.97,4.11), although this association was not statistically significant at the 0.05 alpha level. There was insufficient evidence to support the association between grandmother's co-residency and correct adolescent knowledge of the healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy. This study provides support for expanding adolescent reproductive health to include the role of senior women in promoting and transmitting health care knowledge to younger women in the household.

Grandmother's Role as a Personal Reference toward Exclusive Breastfeeding Behavior

Grandmother's role in the behavior of exclusive breastfeeding is very necessary because the grandmother is the closest person in the family. Its existence influences decision-making in various family matters, especially the care of children from birth to adulthood. This study aims to analyze differences in the role of grandmothers as a personal reference for exclusive breastfeeding behavior. This type of experimental Quasy research was conducted in May-July 2018 in Sidoarjo Regency, East Java, Indonesia by dividing two experimental groups, namely the treatment group and the control group. Both groups started with a pre-test, and after the treatment was measured again (post-test). Statistical analysis used multivariate covariance analysis (MANCOVA) to test whether there were differences in treatment between the control group and the treatment group after adjusting for confounding variables, namely formula milk promotion. The results of the pre-test statistical test showed that the value of p = 0.384 means that there is no difference in the role of the grandmother on the exclusive breastfeeding behavior of the control group and the treatment group. The results of the post-test statistical test showed that the value of p = 0.000 means that there are differences in the role of the grandmother on the exclusive breastfeeding behavior of the control group and the treatment group. The role of the grandmother as a personal reference can influence exclusive breastfeeding behavior so that it can be a form of family support for the mother for exclusive breastfeeding and can be used as a way to support exclusive breastfeeding mothers. Keywords : Behavior, exclusive breastfeeding, grandmother’s role, personal reference.

Společenské faktory utvářející rámec pro uchopení role babičky. Reflexe babiček z Pardubic a okolí

The aim of this article is to describe the social aspects that affect performing the role of grandmother. The historical-sociological approach was chosen to research this topic. It uses knowledge of previous situations and processes to an in-depth understanding of the contemporary situation. Interviews realized with eight grandmothers of children aged 6–8 were analyzed. The article presents the grandmothers’ reflection of the social framework for performing the grandmother’s role. In grandmothers’ opinions, this framework has a significant impact on the possibilities of performing a grandmother’s role. Using the historical-sociological approach also allowed us to identify changes in the framework during the last decades. These changes are explained on examples of the last three generations of grandmothers in the text.

Not “WEIRD” but Truly Different: Cultural Life Scripts and Autobiographical Memory in Indigenous Australia

This exploratory study examines the structure of cultural life scripts (CLS) and autobiographical memories in a group of 13 non-WEIRD (Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic) Nunggubuyu from Australia. Participants provided a CLS and reported the events’ expected timing and valence; and their seven most important memories, the age at the events and their valence. The CLS and important memories consisted mainly of positive events happening in early youth, but there was also a notable bump with positive events later in life. Results provide evidence for the important role of grandmothers in the Nunggubuyu culture, as both in the CLSs and in autobiographical memories, many events related to learning about Nunggubuyu culture as a child, and grandmothers teaching the community and especially children. Importantly, the results highlight that societal and cultural structures that differ from those in WEIRD communities may result in differences in CLS and in autobiographical memory recall.

The Role of Grandmother’s Grandparenting on Family Harmony: a Phenomenological Analysis

Grandparenting could have a positive and negative effect on family harmony. This study aims to better understand the influence of grandmother’s grandparenting role towards family harmony. This phenomenological study used data derived from interviewing and observing five participants. The data were analyzed using interpretative phenomenology. The findings of this study found nine themes: the meaning of grandchildren for grandmother, the reason of grandmothers parenting, grandmothers way of parenting, the effect of family’s social economics, the relationship of grandmothers with family members, grandmothers problem solving to overcome family conflict, grandmothers role in the family, the emotional bonding between grandmother and grandchildren, Grandmothers feelings while grandparenting. The grandmothers’ parenting role could positively and negatively influence family harmony, depending on the meaning of grandchildren for the grandmothers. When the grandmother could accept the grandchildren, it will make the grandmother happy and affect family harmony.

Will granny save me? Birth status, survival, and the role of grandmothers in historical Finland

Grandmothers play a crucial role in families enhancing grandchild wellbeing and survival but their effects can be context-dependent, and the children born in poor conditions are most likely to benefit from the investments made by helping grandmothers. In this study, we examined, for the first time, whether grandmothers' presence modified associations between adverse birth status and survival up to 5 years of age. In detail, we verified, whether (i) firstborns, (ii) twins, (iii) children born within 24 months after their sibling, and (iv) children followed by short interval (i.e. their younger sibling was born within 24 months) survived better when either their maternal, paternal, or both grandmothers were present. Moreover, we evaluated whether illegitimate children survived better when the maternal grandmother was present. We used an extensive and largely pre-industrial demographic dataset collected from parish population registers kept by the Lutheran Church of Finland from years 1730–1895. We show that although grandmother presence cannot mitigate adverse effects of many poorer birth conditions, grandchildren whose next sibling was born after a short interval survived better when the maternal grandmother was present. Taken together, these findings highlight an important role of grandmothers in compensating the mother's investment in the new baby, thus enabling overall faster successful reproductive rate of mothers. Whilst the opportunity for grandmothers to mitigate the risks of adverse birth statuses is limited, this study does show - through the beneficial effect on survival for those with a short subsequent birth interval - that grandmothers can increase their daughters' and their own reproductive success.

An Innovative Grandmother-Inclusive Approach for Addressing Suboptimal Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in Sierra Leone.

ABSTRACTBackgroundSuboptimal infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices contribute to child undernutrition. Sierra Leone Demographic and Health Survey data show that IYCF practices remain poor despite modest improvements. Recent studies have identified the role of grandmothers as critical to child nutrition; however, in Sierra Leone to date, the potential for grandmothers to influence IYCF practices has not been investigated.ObjectivesWe examined how an innovative grandmother-inclusive approach (GMIA) can be used to address suboptimal IYCF practices.MethodsUsing a quasi-experimental design, we compared IYCF beliefs and practices between GMIA intervention communities (receiving monthly dialogue sessions on nutrition, quarterly community praise sessions, and intergenerational forums) and comparison communities (receiving standard nutrition education) in Bum chiefdom from 2013 and 2016. The quantitative endline survey targeted 101 pregnant women, 291 women with children aged <2 y, and 219 grandmothers. Statistical analyses utilized t tests and χ2 tests to examine differences between intervention and comparison communities at endline. Multivariate regression was used to determine the intervention's effect on IYCF outcomes of interest.ResultsAwareness of and participation in the GMIA was high among mothers and grandmothers in intervention communities. The percentage of infants and young children aged 0–23 mo (n = 291) exclusively breastfed during the first week of life was significantly higher in the intervention group (90.2% compared with 79.4%, P = 0.01). Among infants aged 6–23 mo (n = 219), the percentage achieving minimum dietary diversity and minimum acceptable diet was significantly higher in the intervention group (77.2% compared with 51.8%, P < 0.001; and 53.8% compared with 22.6%, P < 0.001, respectively). Differences in percentages achieving minimum meal frequency (MMF) were only significant for infants aged 9–23 mo, with the intervention group achieving a higher MMF (54.6% compared with 36.9%, P = 0.02).ConclusionsResults suggest that a GMIA that recognizes grandmothers’ roles and strengthens their knowledge can contribute to improved IYCF practices.