Intergenerational leisure and family reconciliation

Scientific literature suggests the contribution to family reconciliation as a motivation for leisure shared by grandparents and grandchildren. However, there are some discrepant results. The study aimed examine need practical grandparents’ grandchildren’s leisure, its linkage with frequency, geographical residential area, cohabitation of both generations in same home. A questionnaire was administered 357 children aged 6 12 years residing northern Spain, descriptive inferential analysis data were performed. results placed an intermediate position, below motivations entertainment emotional motivations, but above those related co-learning absence other people perform such activities. is associated frequency practice, not area or fact that cohabitate at address. possible exceptionality current situation, within framework COVID-19, which may have produced significant alterations grandparent-grandchildren relationship, discussed, consequent continue this line inquiry.