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The wellbeing and competence of mothers in relation to the grandparents’ help

Background: The study aim was to examine the contribution of mother's psychological distress, sleep quality, perceived social support and child affectivity in explaining their sense of competence (satisfaction and self-efficacy) and examine the associations of these variables with perceived grandparents’ help in their family life. Methods: The participants were 105 mothers of children 6 -7 years old, not socialized in kindergarten. The mothers completed the scales of: Parenting sense of competence, CORE-OM, Perceived social support, Negative affectivity of the Children’s behavior questionnaire, and Perceived grandparents’ help in eight domains of family life. Findings: Using hierarchical regression analysis, 41.4% of maternal parental satisfaction variance and 27.9% of maternal self-efficacy variance was explained by the observed predictors. Sleep quality and child’s negative affectivity were significantly predicted both satisfaction and self-efficacy, while maternal psychological distress predicted satisfaction only, and social support predicted self-efficacy only. Maternal satisfaction was higher when they perceived grandparents’ help in taking care of children during and out of their work, and in children’s „little school“ assignments. More distressed mothers perceived more grandparents’ financial help, and in taking care of a sick child. More perceived child’s negative affectivity was associated with more grandparents’ help in those same two domains and in household help. As expected, only perceived social support from family (not friends or special person) correlated with perceived help in most domains (except financial and household help). Discussion: The findings suggest the importance of further exploration of different family members’ wellbeing with regards to their roles in contemporary families.

parental competence, social support, CORE-OM, sleep quality

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