Sources of Support and Family Quality of Life of Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren With and Without Disabilities

摘要: SOURCES OF SUPPORT AND FAMILY QUALITY LIFE GRANDMOTHERS RAISING GRANDCHILDREN WITH WITHOUT DISABILITIES by Karen Kresak Researchers have examined sources of support as well family quality life parents raising children with disabilities (Brown, MacAdam-Crisp, Wang, & Iarocci, 2006; Darling Gallagher, 2004; Davis Gavidia-Payne, 2009; Zuna, Turnbull, Summers, 2009). Scant research on grandparents grandchildren has been conducted; an examination and is lacking in the literature. This study 50 grandmother-headed families, approximately half whom were without disabilities. Comparative analyses revealed that there significant differences between grandmothers regard to life. Informal was significantly higher for In addition, rated satisfaction all aspects except parenting than Correlational showed a moderate correlation both groups grandmothers. While total informal social correlated ratings grandmothers, formal only Hierarchical multiple regression used test relationship among four predictor variables (age grandmother, educational level age grandchild, presence child disability) two criterion (total score rating rating). Results disability No found support. Elizabeth