Researchers have repeatedly called for more careful attention to how ethnicity and culture influence grandparent–grandchild communication. Using affection exchange theory as our guiding lens, we examined how grandchildren’s perceptions of receiving affection from their grandparents differ according to grandparents’ ethnicity. After controlling for a range of potentially confounding factors, grandchildren of Asian American, European American, and Latina/o American grandparents differed in the love and esteem, caring, memories and humor, and celebratory affection they reported from grandparents. Grandparents’ ethnicity also moderated associations between love and esteem and closeness, as well as between memories and humor and closeness. Implications of these findings and directions for future research are considered.

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祖父母与孙子女深情交流中的种族差异

研究人员多次呼吁更加注意种族和文化如何影响祖父母与孙子女之间的交流。以情感交流理论为指导，我们考察了孙子孙女从祖父母那里得到爱的看法如何随祖父母的种族而不同。在控制了一系列潜在的混杂因素之后，亚裔，欧洲裔美国人和拉美裔美国人的祖父母的孙子女在祖父母那里的爱心，自尊，关怀，记忆和幽默以及对喜好的情感方面有所不同。祖父母的种族也调节了爱与自尊与亲密之间以及记忆与幽默与亲密之间的联系。考虑了这些发现和未来研究方向的含义。