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Valencia, Sherri Lynn.

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The influence of family resources and family supports on the coping styles of African American grandmothers who are parenting their grandchildren.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The influence of family resources and family supports on the coping styles of African American grandmothers who are parenting their grandchildren./
Author:	Valencia, Sherri Lynn.
Description:	113 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Mary J. Verdieck.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-10A.
Subject:	Black Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3239357
ISBN:	9780542935732

The influence of family resources and family supports on the coping styles of African American grandmothers who are parenting their grandchildren.
Valencia, Sherri Lynn.

The influence of family resources and family supports on the coping styles of African American grandmothers who are parenting their grandchildren. - 113 p.

Adviser: Mary J. Verdieck.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Catholic University of America, 2006.

Grandmothers raising grandchildren is not a new phenomenon in the United States (Caputo, 1999; Rodgers & Jones, 1999). This is especially true in African American families in which grandparents often raise their own grandchildren so that the families can stay together. More recently, what has changed for some families are the reasons why grandmothers take on the parenting role. These reasons include parental substance abuse, child abuse and/or neglect, abandonment, teenage pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, unemployment, incarceration, mental health problems, and homicide (Kelly & Yorker, 1997). This research explores the association between the availability (or absence) of family resources and family support and the grandmothers' coping styles. More specifically, the purpose of this research was to determine if there is a significant relationship between the ways African American grandmothers providing primary child care cope with the stress of parenting and their perception of the levels and combination of family resources and family supports available to aid them.

ISBN: 9780542935732Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

The influence of family resources and family supports on the coping styles of African American grandmothers who are parenting their grandchildren.
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520 $a Grandmothers raising grandchildren is not a new phenomenon in the United States (Caputo, 1999; Rodgers & Jones, 1999). This is especially true in African American families in which grandparents often raise their own grandchildren so that the families can stay together. More recently, what has changed for some families are the reasons why grandmothers take on the parenting role. These reasons include parental substance abuse, child abuse and/or neglect, abandonment, teenage pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, unemployment, incarceration, mental health problems, and homicide (Kelly & Yorker, 1997). This research explores the association between the availability (or absence) of family resources and family support and the grandmothers' coping styles. More specifically, the purpose of this research was to determine if there is a significant relationship between the ways African American grandmothers providing primary child care cope with the stress of parenting and their perception of the levels and combination of family resources and family supports available to aid them.
520 $a The study employs a mixed method research design, using data from 60 surveys and 10 semi-structured interviews from a sample of African American caregiving grandmothers. Multiple regression analysis revealed that family resources and family supports did not simultaneously influence the type of coping style used by the caregiving grandmother. A Pearson correlation revealed that age was positively related to the length of time a grandmother had been the primary caregiver for a grandchild. A negative correlation was found between age and family resources. The older the grandmother, the less family support she had. Qualitative interviews provided detailed information around the circumstances that led the grandmothers to become caregivers.
520 $a The study data confirm the continuing need to address inadequacies in the family resources and supports available to caregiving grandmothers, and indicate that a further analysis of coping styles and strategies among this population would enhance the ability of social workers to support custodial grandparents adequately and effectively.
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