David A Coall
Biographic Data
| ID | 140405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David A Coall |
| GIVEN NAMES | David A |
| FAMILY NAME | Coall |
| SIGNATURE | COALL D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edith Cowan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0488-2683 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 227 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Providing Help in Europe
Grandparental child care is a vital form of social support that can enhance family well-being. Prior studies have found that older adults who provide support to one individual are more likely to offer help to others within their families and social networks. However, little research has examined whether helping others is associated with grandparental child care. Using data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe, covering 27 cou…
Barriers and enablers to promoting grandchildren’s physical activity and reducing screen time
Findings suggest that grandparents may benefit from resources that assist them to identify activities that are inexpensive and require minimal effort to organize. Activities that account for grandparents' age and health status, as well as any environmental barriers, are likely to be well-received
The role of mating effort and co-residence history in step-grandparental investment
The prevalence of divorce in both parental and grandparental generations has led to a rise in the number of children who now have families that include both biological and step-grandparents. Despite the thorough examination of biological grandparents’ contributions in the recent literature, there remains a scarcity of studies focusing on the investment of step-grandparents. Using population-based data from a sample of 2494 parents in Germany, we …
Keeping the family
Speculation on the evolution of the Nyoongar hunter-gatherer family system
Recently, a small team of Nyoongar and non-Nyoongar researchers applied a dual lens methodology to explore moort, the traditional hunter-gatherer family of the local Aboriginal Nyoongar people. An integrated system of seven most valued behaviours emerged. These are: Danjoo maam yok winni rak kardip (mutual gender respect), moiety (inbreeding prevention), kooboorn (totems), moran (kinship), boodiya (Eldership), kallip (knowledge of people and land…
Sars-CoV-2 updates in a West African population and precautionary measures for sustaining quality antenatal care delivery
The impact of a residential camp on grandchildren raised by grandparents
This research aimed to investigate grandparents’ perspectives on the impact of Leadership and Respite Camps, designed for children being raised by their grandparents, on their grandchildren. In-depth interviews were conducted with 34 grandparents whose grandchildren had participated in 1 of 3 camps held between September 2018 and January 2019, in Perth and the south-west of Western Australia. Findings highlighted how grandcarers’ perceived the ca…
Intergenerational influences of hunger and community violence on the Aboriginal people of Western Australia
There is a consensus in the literature that hunger and community violence inaugurates adverse health impacts for survivors and for their descendants. The studied cohorts do not include Western Australian Aboriginal people, although many experienced violence and famine conditions as late as the 1970s. This article describes the pathways and intergenerational impacts of studied cohorts and applies these to the contemporary Western Australian contex…
Grandparental childcare, health and well-being in Europe
Educational attainment is associated with unconditional helping behaviour
Who’ll Care for Them in the Event of Me Dying? Custodial Grandparents’ Incapacity, Mortality, and Succession Care-Plan Fears for Their Custodial Grandchild/ren
Custodial grandparents are a vulnerable and marginalised group within society. A total of 110 these custodial grandparents took part in a mixed-method (qualitative interview and quantitative survey) research project. Of these, 22 participated in a semi-structured interview, 27 participated in an interview and completed a Grandcarer Needs, Wellbeing and Health Survey, and 61 completed a survey only. Data were subjected to conventional, summative a…
Interdisciplinary perspectives on grandparental investment
Why do grandparents invest so heavily in their grandchildren and what impact does this investment have on families? A multitude of factors influence the roles grandparents play in their families. Here, we present an interdisciplinary perspective of grandparenting incorporating theory and research from evolutionary biology, sociology and economics. Discriminative grandparental solicitude, biological relatedness and the impact of resource availabil…
Caregiving within and beyond the family is associated with lower mortality for the caregiver
A prospective study of associations among helping, health, and longevity
Grandfathers
Grandparents in contemporary industrialized societies invest substantial amounts of time, money and care in the grandchildren. For example, in the USA in 2007, 2.5 million grandparents were responsible for meeting most of the basic needs of one or more of the grandchildren who lived in their household (US Census Bureau 2009). Across eleven European countries, 44% of grandparents reported to have provided childcare for their grandchildren in the l…
Drug Addiction is a Scourge on the Earth and my Grandchildren are its Victims
How Much Does Family Matter? Cooperative Breeding and the Demographic Transition
In this paper we review the empirical evidence that women receive help from family members in raising children, by drawing together published research which has explicitly investigated the impact of kin on child well-being. It is clear from this review that in both pre- and post-demographic transition societies family matters: the presence of certain relatives improves child survival and well-being, though which relatives matter differs between p…
Grandparental investment
What motivates grandparents to their altruism? We review answers from evolutionary theory, sociology, and economics. Sometimes in direct conflict with each other, these accounts of grandparental investment exist side-by-side, with little or no theoretical integration. They all account for some of the data, and none account for all of it. We call for a more comprehensive theoretical framework of grandparental investment that addresses its proximat…
Reproductive development and parental investment during pregnancy
The association between a woman's age at menarche and the birth weight of her children is highly variable across human populations. Life history theory proposes that a woman's early environment may moderate this association and thus account for some of the variation between populations. According to one life history theory model, for individuals who develop in a childhood environment of high local mortality rates (experienced subjectively as psyc…
Birthweight and paternal involvement predict early reproduction in British women
There is considerable interest in the mechanisms maintaining early reproduction in the most socioeconomically disadvantaged groups in developed countries. Previous research has suggested that differential exposure to early‐life factors such as low birthweight and lack of paternal involvement during childhood may be relevant. Here, we used longitudinal data on the female cohort members from the UK National Child Development Study ( n = 3,014–4,482…
Human adiposity
Grandparental investment
The influence that grandparents have on the life history traits of their descendants has been studied extensively. However, no attention has been paid to the potential influence a grandparent's own reproductive history has on the investment they make in their grandchildren. We use data from 658 Swiss grandchildren and 591 of their grandparents to investigate whether grandparents' reproductive scheduling and family size influence the amount of inv…
Early stress predicts age at menarche and first birth, adult attachment, and expected lifespan
Evolutionary perspectives on pregnancy
How Much Does Family Matter? Cooperative Breeding and the Demographic Transition
In this paper we review the empirical evidence that women receive help from family members in raising children, by drawing together published research which has explicitly investigated the impact of kin on child well-being. It is clear from this review that in both pre- and post-demographic transition societies family matters: the presence of certain relatives improves child survival and well-being, though which relatives matter differs between p…
Early stress predicts age at menarche and first birth, adult attachment, and expected lifespan
Evolutionary perspectives on pregnancy
Grandparental childcare, health and well-being in Europe
A prospective study of associations among helping, health, and longevity
Interdisciplinary perspectives on grandparental investment
Why do grandparents invest so heavily in their grandchildren and what impact does this investment have on families? A multitude of factors influence the roles grandparents play in their families. Here, we present an interdisciplinary perspective of grandparenting incorporating theory and research from evolutionary biology, sociology and economics. Discriminative grandparental solicitude, biological relatedness and the impact of resource availabil…
Who’ll Care for Them in the Event of Me Dying? Custodial Grandparents’ Incapacity, Mortality, and Succession Care-Plan Fears for Their Custodial Grandchild/ren
Custodial grandparents are a vulnerable and marginalised group within society. A total of 110 these custodial grandparents took part in a mixed-method (qualitative interview and quantitative survey) research project. Of these, 22 participated in a semi-structured interview, 27 participated in an interview and completed a Grandcarer Needs, Wellbeing and Health Survey, and 61 completed a survey only. Data were subjected to conventional, summative a…
Speculation on the evolution of the Nyoongar hunter-gatherer family system
Recently, a small team of Nyoongar and non-Nyoongar researchers applied a dual lens methodology to explore moort, the traditional hunter-gatherer family of the local Aboriginal Nyoongar people. An integrated system of seven most valued behaviours emerged. These are: Danjoo maam yok winni rak kardip (mutual gender respect), moiety (inbreeding prevention), kooboorn (totems), moran (kinship), boodiya (Eldership), kallip (knowledge of people and land…
The impact of a residential camp on grandchildren raised by grandparents
This research aimed to investigate grandparents’ perspectives on the impact of Leadership and Respite Camps, designed for children being raised by their grandparents, on their grandchildren. In-depth interviews were conducted with 34 grandparents whose grandchildren had participated in 1 of 3 camps held between September 2018 and January 2019, in Perth and the south-west of Western Australia. Findings highlighted how grandcarers’ perceived the ca…
Educational attainment is associated with unconditional helping behaviour
Evolutionary perspectives on pregnancy
Early stress predicts age at menarche and first birth, adult attachment, and expected lifespan
Grandparental investment
The influence that grandparents have on the life history traits of their descendants has been studied extensively. However, no attention has been paid to the potential influence a grandparent's own reproductive history has on the investment they make in their grandchildren. We use data from 658 Swiss grandchildren and 591 of their grandparents to investigate whether grandparents' reproductive scheduling and family size influence the amount of inv…
Grandparental investment
What motivates grandparents to their altruism? We review answers from evolutionary theory, sociology, and economics. Sometimes in direct conflict with each other, these accounts of grandparental investment exist side-by-side, with little or no theoretical integration. They all account for some of the data, and none account for all of it. We call for a more comprehensive theoretical framework of grandparental investment that addresses its proximat…
Reproductive development and parental investment during pregnancy
The association between a woman's age at menarche and the birth weight of her children is highly variable across human populations. Life history theory proposes that a woman's early environment may moderate this association and thus account for some of the variation between populations. According to one life history theory model, for individuals who develop in a childhood environment of high local mortality rates (experienced subjectively as psyc…
Birthweight and paternal involvement predict early reproduction in British women
There is considerable interest in the mechanisms maintaining early reproduction in the most socioeconomically disadvantaged groups in developed countries. Previous research has suggested that differential exposure to early‐life factors such as low birthweight and lack of paternal involvement during childhood may be relevant. Here, we used longitudinal data on the female cohort members from the UK National Child Development Study ( n = 3,014–4,482…
Human adiposity
How Much Does Family Matter? Cooperative Breeding and the Demographic Transition
In this paper we review the empirical evidence that women receive help from family members in raising children, by drawing together published research which has explicitly investigated the impact of kin on child well-being. It is clear from this review that in both pre- and post-demographic transition societies family matters: the presence of certain relatives improves child survival and well-being, though which relatives matter differs between p…
Grandfathers
Grandparents in contemporary industrialized societies invest substantial amounts of time, money and care in the grandchildren. For example, in the USA in 2007, 2.5 million grandparents were responsible for meeting most of the basic needs of one or more of the grandchildren who lived in their household (US Census Bureau 2009). Across eleven European countries, 44% of grandparents reported to have provided childcare for their grandchildren in the l…
Drug Addiction is a Scourge on the Earth and my Grandchildren are its Victims
Caregiving within and beyond the family is associated with lower mortality for the caregiver
A prospective study of associations among helping, health, and longevity
Interdisciplinary perspectives on grandparental investment
Why do grandparents invest so heavily in their grandchildren and what impact does this investment have on families? A multitude of factors influence the roles grandparents play in their families. Here, we present an interdisciplinary perspective of grandparenting incorporating theory and research from evolutionary biology, sociology and economics. Discriminative grandparental solicitude, biological relatedness and the impact of resource availabil…
Intergenerational influences of hunger and community violence on the Aboriginal people of Western Australia
There is a consensus in the literature that hunger and community violence inaugurates adverse health impacts for survivors and for their descendants. The studied cohorts do not include Western Australian Aboriginal people, although many experienced violence and famine conditions as late as the 1970s. This article describes the pathways and intergenerational impacts of studied cohorts and applies these to the contemporary Western Australian contex…
Grandparental childcare, health and well-being in Europe
Educational attainment is associated with unconditional helping behaviour
Who’ll Care for Them in the Event of Me Dying? Custodial Grandparents’ Incapacity, Mortality, and Succession Care-Plan Fears for Their Custodial Grandchild/ren
Custodial grandparents are a vulnerable and marginalised group within society. A total of 110 these custodial grandparents took part in a mixed-method (qualitative interview and quantitative survey) research project. Of these, 22 participated in a semi-structured interview, 27 participated in an interview and completed a Grandcarer Needs, Wellbeing and Health Survey, and 61 completed a survey only. Data were subjected to conventional, summative a…
Sars-CoV-2 updates in a West African population and precautionary measures for sustaining quality antenatal care delivery
The impact of a residential camp on grandchildren raised by grandparents
This research aimed to investigate grandparents’ perspectives on the impact of Leadership and Respite Camps, designed for children being raised by their grandparents, on their grandchildren. In-depth interviews were conducted with 34 grandparents whose grandchildren had participated in 1 of 3 camps held between September 2018 and January 2019, in Perth and the south-west of Western Australia. Findings highlighted how grandcarers’ perceived the ca…
Speculation on the evolution of the Nyoongar hunter-gatherer family system
Recently, a small team of Nyoongar and non-Nyoongar researchers applied a dual lens methodology to explore moort, the traditional hunter-gatherer family of the local Aboriginal Nyoongar people. An integrated system of seven most valued behaviours emerged. These are: Danjoo maam yok winni rak kardip (mutual gender respect), moiety (inbreeding prevention), kooboorn (totems), moran (kinship), boodiya (Eldership), kallip (knowledge of people and land…
Keeping the family
Barriers and enablers to promoting grandchildren’s physical activity and reducing screen time
Findings suggest that grandparents may benefit from resources that assist them to identify activities that are inexpensive and require minimal effort to organize. Activities that account for grandparents' age and health status, as well as any environmental barriers, are likely to be well-received
The role of mating effort and co-residence history in step-grandparental investment
The prevalence of divorce in both parental and grandparental generations has led to a rise in the number of children who now have families that include both biological and step-grandparents. Despite the thorough examination of biological grandparents’ contributions in the recent literature, there remains a scarcity of studies focusing on the investment of step-grandparents. Using population-based data from a sample of 2494 parents in Germany, we …
Providing Help in Europe
Grandparental child care is a vital form of social support that can enhance family well-being. Prior studies have found that older adults who provide support to one individual are more likely to offer help to others within their families and social networks. However, little research has examined whether helping others is associated with grandparental child care. Using data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe, covering 27 cou…
Psychology (19 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (10 works) · Grandparent (9 works) · Population (8 works) · Biology (7 works) · Demography (7 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (6 works)