Dyadic Associations of Parenting Stress, Family Resilience, and Coping Styles Among Parents and Grandparents in Intergenerational Co-Parenting Families

Editorial reading guide · Collaboration

What does shared care feel like to each generation?

The paired design asks both generations about stress, coping and resilience rather than treating a grandparent as an unnamed source of help.

Who was studied?

312 parent–grandparent pairs in China who shared care for a child younger than three years.

Age / stage: Children under three

Read with three questions

1. How do partners' own and one another's ratings contribute to the analysis?
2. Which measures came from the same participant, and which had an independent source?
3. How might the division of care in a different household affect how the findings apply?

Keep the limits in view

A cross-sectional account measures variables in the same period. It cannot establish which came first; participants reporting more than one measure may also introduce shared reporting bias.