Greg Sanders and Divya Saxena from the College of Human Development and Education will publish “Quality of Grandparent-Grandchild Relationship in Asian-Indian Immigrant Families” in The International Journal of Aging and Human Development.

Sanders and Saxena conducted a study that looked at Asian-Indian immigrant grandchildren, age 10-16 years, from different parts of the United States. The grandchildren completed survey questionnaires regarding the quality of their relationships with their grandparents in India.

“Findings indicated that role importance, amount of contact and health of the grandparent uniquely contributed to the relationship quality,” Sanders said. “Results also indicated acculturation was not a significant predictor of relationship quality, although it was a significant predictor of role importance.”