Grandparents as Interaction and Social Support Agents in Infancy

The contemporary role of grandparents in infancy was examined in a comparative analysis of grandparent-grandinfant and parent-infant interaction patterns. A second focus of the study was an exploration of the extent to which grandparents function as social support agents for their adult children and infant grandchild. Grandparents (30 grandmothers and 20 grandfathers) and parents (30 mothers and 30 fathers) of 7-month-old infants were observed in individual 5-minute dyadic play sessions with the infant in the parents' homes, yielding 20 minutes of agent-infant interaction. The observations were scored using both time-sampling and global coding schemes. Information on grandparental support to the young parents and infant, relative to other social support sources, were also obtained from grandparents and parents.

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Ph.D.

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Dissertation

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Education

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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2014

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• Tinsley, Barbara Rozalsky

• Psychology, Developmental

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(UMI)AAI8502320

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oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/68967