Is Grandparenting Emotionally Fulfilling
Examining Health, Self-efficacy and Family Context in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9692023 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tannistha Samanta (0000-0002-4150-768X, corresponding author), Tannistha Samanta Tannistha Samanta, Ashwin Tripathi Ashwin Tripathi, Ashwin Tripathi (0000-0001-9584-1301) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Publication date | 2026-03-08 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic and political weekly/Economic & political weekly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-9976 • E-ISSN: 2349-8846 |
| Publisher | Sameeksha Trust (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.71279/epw.v61i9.48518 |
| OpenAlex | W7141476649 |
| Language | EN |
Like much of South Asia, intergenerational transactions around care, economic security and affect are socially desired in India. Building upon this, we question these normatively “happy” transitions, especially into grandparenthood to move beyond the normative entrapments of family scripts and cultural morality around caregiving. Drawing from Bandura’s (2006) conceptualisation of self-efficacy and utilising the Longitudinal Aging Study in India, we ask if grandparenting is emotionally fulfilling in later life for older Indians. Preliminary results from multivariate OLS models suggest grandparenting, being ambivalent at best, is mediated by the presence of extra-familial social networks, social participation, and health
Affect (linguistics · Ambivalence · Context (archaeology · Family life · Kinship · Life course approach · Morality · Normative · Social environment · Aging and Gerontology Research · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
| Highly cited | No |
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