Juggling Grandchild Care and Labor Force Participation: The Effect on Psychological Wellbeing of Older Women.

ABSTRACT: Although it is well-known that care responsibilities are strongly gendered also in later life, the consequences for older women of juggling work and care responsibilities are understudied. This study contributes to fill this gap by focusing on the wellbeing implications for older European women of combining work and grandchild care. The role strain and role enhancement theories guide our theoretical predictions. While the former predicts a lower wellbeing due to the double burden of grandchild care and paid work, the latter posits an increase in wellbeing through the accumulation of social identities or roles. By using longitudinal data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we investigate whether grandmothers who do and those who do not work experience differe

SUBMITTER: Arpino B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8807505 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature