Meanings and Roles of Great-Grandparenthood: A Scoping Review
Zuzana Talašová, Adéla Souralová

TL;DR
This scoping review explores the roles and meanings of great-grandparenthood in four-generation families.
Contribution
The study categorizes great-grandparent roles as continuing, insignificant, or significant, highlighting their varied functions and meanings.
Findings
Great-grandparent roles are categorized into continuing, insignificant, or significant types.
Each role category has distinct functions and meanings for great-grandparents within the family.
Shared characteristics exist across role categories despite differences in their framing factors.
Abstract
Great-grandparenthood brings a new internal dynamic to intergenerational relationships in which contact between 4 generations is now the norm. In this scoping review, we sought to identify the roles of great-grandparents and what those roles entail. We performed a review using PRISMA-ScR to identify peer-reviewed studies investigating the roles of great-grandparents. The reviewed articles were selected from 4 databases. The article selection conditions were met by 23 studies that used quantitative or qualitative methods. The studies had to be published in English; the selected publications spanned 8 countries. The scoping review covers a collection qualitative and quantitative research with different types of respondents (great-grandchild, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc.). An important element was a statement on great-grandparenting from at least 1 of the 4 generations. We…
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Taxonomy
TopicsIntergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Health disparities and outcomes · Aging and Gerontology Research
