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• W2892365564 abstract "This thesis aims to investigate how, and under what circumstances, intimacy ingrandparent-grandchild relationships is enabled, enacted and sustained in the earlyyears of grandchildren. Previous work on emotional closeness of grandparent-grandchildrelationships suggests that grandmothers and maternal grandparents aremore likely to feel stronger bonds with their grandchildren, and that grandparents witha good quality of relationship with parents and living geographically close tograndchildren have greater opportunities to develop a strong emotional tie. Themajority of previous research involves data on perceptions of closeness ofgrandparents focusing on one of their grandchildren or by young adult grandchildrenreporting on closeness with a specific grandparent. In addition, qualitative researchwith grandparents indicates the diversity of ways they exercise agency, andinvolvement in the life of grandchildren, as well as gendered changes ingrandfatherhood. However, there has been limited scholarly attention given topractices of intimacy, emotions and masculinities in grandparent-grandchildrelationships, and the ways grandparents interpret and negotiate intimate relationshipswith their grandchildren amid changes in individual, familial and relational aspectsover time. This study uses quantitative data to examines the extent to which individual,family and socio-structural factors influence the mothers’ perception of emotionalcloseness of the relationship of an infant child with four types of grandparents. This issupplemented by qualitative data on grandparents’ views of closeness with all theirgrandchildren. There is a limited scholarly literature on the relation of grandparents’lived experiences, and shared normative understandings, and a sense of being closeand special to their grandchildren. The ‘practices of intimacy’ approach highlights thesignificance of practices of everyday life enacted by individuals in relation to othersin building the quality of being close, and the processes through which individualsattach meaning to such practices. This approach is adopted to understand the diversityof ways grandparents interpret and do intimacy with their grandchildren.The thesis aims were achieved through a mixed methods research process combiningsecondary data analysis of the Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) study and in-depthinterviews with 24 cases of grandparents (12 solo, either with a grandmother orgrandfather, and 12 with couple). GUS maps the emotional closeness of grandchild-grandparentrelationships through the grandchild’s mother’s perception. Analysisrevealed that perceived emotional closeness was more likely if the grandparent hadsocial contact with the mother, lived geographically close, and looked after andengaged in outings more regularly with the infant child. In general, social contact andpropinquity impacted less on grandmothers, particularly maternal grandmothers, andmore on paternal grandfathers. Also, looking after grandchildren on a regular basiswas distinctly salient for grandmothers, whereas going more frequently on outings wasmore salient for grandfathers than grandmothers. As regards practices of intimacy,grandparents emphasised the importance of communication through verbal, bodily andrelational forms enacted through a large variety of activities in the daily living relatedto forms of caring, playing and spending time together, which construct a sense ofemotional closeness. The study suggests that intimate grandparent-grandchildrelationships are intersected by moral understandings of ‘good grandparenting’, whichare challenged or find contradictions in lived experiences of grandparenting thatproduce asymmetrical emotionalities among grandchildren, and ambivalences inrelation to children and grandchildren. The study suggests that grandparents reflect ontheir emotionality, and enact embodied emotions, depending on relational and familycircumstances, and throughout changes in the relationship with their grandchildren asthey get older. The study shows that grandfathers engage in emotional forms of caring,which may challenge hegemonic masculinities, and that the relation betweenmasculinities and practices of intimacy are troubled, particularly in the event ofparental divorce." @default.
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• W2892365564 title "Researching intimacy in family life: a mixed methods study of emotional closeness of grandparent-grandchild relationships in Scotland" @default.
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