This study investigates the impact of non-intensive and intensive supplementary grandparental child care on grandparents’ involvement in leisure activities. Three aspects of leisure activities are investigated: the number/frequency of activities, with whom they are carried out and the subjective satisfaction with them. Beside the possibility of a cumulation effect, the literature suggests that providing grandparental child care might compete with other activities, especially for women. Thus, we consider role enhancement and role strain theories to derive our hypotheses. We use longitudinal data from the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) which contains rich information on the leisure activities of people aged 40 and older. To account for selection into the provision of grandparental child care, we use a within-unit estimation approach (fixed-effects panel models). Our results show that both grandfathers and grandmothers tend to engage in more leisure activities when they provide grandparental child care. While care-giving grandfathers become more likely to engage in activities with family members without changing their engagement outside the family, we found no effect for women in this respect. Nevertheless, grandparental child-care provision modifies satisfaction with leisure activities only for women, reducing it, independently from with whom leisure activities are carried out. These findings suggest that a higher quantity of leisure activities does not necessarily imply higher quality.

这项研究调查了非强化和强化的补充祖父母子女托儿服务对祖父母参与休闲活动的影响。研究了休闲活动的三个方面：活动的数量/频率，与之进行的活动以及对活动的主观满意度。除了可能产生累积效应外，文献还表明，提供祖父母育儿服务可能会与其他活动竞争，尤其是对妇女而言。因此，我们考虑角色增强和角色紧张理论以得出我们的假设。我们使用来自德国老龄化调查（DEAS）的纵向数据，其中包含有关40岁以上老年人休闲活动的丰富信息。为了考虑选择提供祖父母儿童保育，我们使用单位内估算方法（固定效果面板模型）。我们的结果表明，祖父母在为祖父母提供托儿服务时，往往会从事更多的休闲活动。尽管照顾祖父的家庭成员很可能在不改变家庭之外参与的情况下与家庭成员进行活动，但我们发现在这方面对妇女没有影响。但是，祖父母提供的托儿服务仅改变了妇女对休闲活动的满意度，降低了对休闲活动的满意度，而与从事休闲活动的妇女无关。这些发现表明，更多的休闲活动并不一定意味着更高的质量。尽管照顾祖父的家庭成员很可能在不改变家庭之外参与的情况下与家庭成员进行活动，但我们发现在这方面对妇女没有影响。但是，祖父母提供的托儿服务仅改变了妇女对休闲活动的满意度，降低了对休闲活动的满意度，而与从事休闲活动的妇女无关。这些发现表明，更多的休闲活动并不一定意味着更高的质量。尽管照顾祖父的家庭成员很可能在不改变家庭之外参与的情况下与家庭成员进行活动，但我们发现在这方面对妇女没有影响。但是，祖父母提供的托儿服务仅改变了妇女对休闲活动的满意度，降低了对休闲活动的满意度，而与从事休闲活动的妇女无关。这些发现表明，更多的休闲活动并不一定意味着更高的质量。独立于与谁进行休闲活动。这些发现表明，更多的休闲活动并不一定意味着更高的质量。独立于与谁进行休闲活动。这些发现表明，更多的休闲活动并不一定意味着更高的质量。