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Title: The Impact of Multigenerational Caregiving on the Health and Wellbeing of U.S. Adults and Their Children
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Li, Qi |
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The Impact of Multigenerational Caregiving on the Health and Wellbeing of U.S. Adults and Their Children Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, 2022. Also: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1650458558092179 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University Keyword(s): Caregivers, Adult Children; Depression (see also CESD); Ethnic Differences; Gender Differences; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Marital Dissolution; Racial Differences; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Well-Being Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Due to shifting demographic trends in the United States, including delayed fertility, longer average life expectancies, and sustained reductions in social welfare programs, multigenerational caregiving has become increasingly prevalent. A growing number of midlife adults now belong to the "sandwich generation" as a result of dual obligations providing simultaneous care to dependent children and aging parents. Despite these recent trends, research on the impact of multigenerational caregiving, particularly as it relates to health and wellbeing, remains limited. To fill this knowledge gap, my dissertation uses six consecutive waves of nationally representative, prospective cohort data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and the corresponding young adult survey (NLSY79-YA) to examine the effects of multigenerational caregiving on various aspects of health and wellbeing among multiple generations of family members. The first empirical chapter investigates the relationship between multigenerational caregiving and physical health among midlife women. Regression results differ substantially by race. Sandwiched caregiving predicts fair/poor self-rated health for Latinx women but not their White or Black counterparts. In the second empirical chapter, I estimate the extent to which multigenerational caregiving influences the probability of marital dissolution and find that this relationship depends on gender and socioeconomic status (SES). Specifically, the likelihood of marital dissolution for sandwiched caregivers decreases as household income increases for men but not women. In the third empirical chapter, I ask if and how parental multigenerational caregiving is associated with psychological functioning among adolescent, young adult, and adult children. Regression results suggest that maternal multigenerational caregiving is negatively associated with depression for adolescents but positively associated with this outcome for adult children. These findings, taken together, illustrate that the potential impact of multigenerational caregiving on the American family is complex and highly dependent on other key social statuses. |
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Li, Qi. The Impact of Multigenerational Caregiving on the Health and Wellbeing of U.S. Adults and Their Children. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, 2022.. |