TY - JOUR
T1 - Non-parental family members as brokers of family social capital
T2 - Compensatory time use in India
AU - Alcaraz, Melissa
AU - Gibby, Ashley Larsen
AU - Luke, Nancy
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: The data used in this paper are from the South India Community Health Study (SICHS), which was supported by a grant (R01 HD058831-01) from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Support was also provided by the Population Research Institute at Penn State University, which is supported by an infrastructure grant from NICHD (P2CHD041025); the Keynes Fund through the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge; and the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University.
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PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - Non-parental family members are understudied but important brokers of family social capital, especially in contexts without a nuclear-family norm. We used rich time diary data from a sample of 1568 South Indian adolescents to examine the relationships between any time spent with parents, parents’ residency status, and the time spent with non-parental family members. We found that adolescents with at least one non-resident parent spent significantly more time with siblings, on average, when compared to adolescents with resident parents. We further found that adolescents spent more time with siblings in educational activities, such as studying, when they had at least one non-resident parent. These findings point to the importance of considering non-parental family members in studies of family social capital, especially in low-and middle-income contexts. Our findings challenge resource dilution theories by demonstrating that siblings themselves act as resources, rather than simply competitors for parental resources.
AB - Non-parental family members are understudied but important brokers of family social capital, especially in contexts without a nuclear-family norm. We used rich time diary data from a sample of 1568 South Indian adolescents to examine the relationships between any time spent with parents, parents’ residency status, and the time spent with non-parental family members. We found that adolescents with at least one non-resident parent spent significantly more time with siblings, on average, when compared to adolescents with resident parents. We further found that adolescents spent more time with siblings in educational activities, such as studying, when they had at least one non-resident parent. These findings point to the importance of considering non-parental family members in studies of family social capital, especially in low-and middle-income contexts. Our findings challenge resource dilution theories by demonstrating that siblings themselves act as resources, rather than simply competitors for parental resources.
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U2 - 10.3390/socsci9120217
DO - 10.3390/socsci9120217
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85096681012
SN - 2076-0760
VL - 9
SP - 1
EP - 11
JO - Social Sciences
JF - Social Sciences
IS - 12
M1 - 217
ER -