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Role Importance, Affectional Solidarity, and Depression Among Familial Caregivers for Older AdultsBenson, Karen M. 08 1900 (has links)
In the United States, familial caregivers provide approximately 80% of the long term elderly care and are at risk for mental health problems. As family members provide care, relationships shift from mutual support to increasing dependency on the caregivers, who in turn often experience a shift in self-concept from their prior relational role to include identification as caregiver for the care recipient. Affectional solidarity, or emotional relationship quality, can influence how caregivers experience their shifting role in relationship to a loved one. The study examined whether role importance is associated with caregiver depression over time, and tested the moderating role of affectional solidarity in this association. A subset of caregivers (N = 57) from the Longitudinal Study of Generations constituted the sample from which role importance, affectional solidarity, and Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression reports were analyzed using longitudinal hierarchical regression. Findings did not support hypotheses. Results suggested that affectional solidarity may be important to consider among familial caregivers as a potential protective factor for depression. Implications for future research and practitioners are discussed.
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Family caregivers' narratives of coping with chronic stress : is anything funny?Opitz, Marlana Kathryn 16 October 2012 (has links)
This dissertation is a qualitative study of six daughter-caregivers' narratives of their experiences in caring for their mothers who were afflicted with a progressive dementia such as Alzheimer's disease. Many correlational and experimental studies have attempted to show whether humor can be utilized to reduce stress, or promote wellbeing. Results are mixed. This outcome is due in part to the ways different kinds of humor may function in different circumstances for different individuals. Few studies have analyzed directly how humor may function in circumstances where it is generated in a natural context that is potentially threatening to highly relevant personal values. The family caregiving context provides a setting for generating narratives about how individuals cope with such circumstances. This study analyzes six caregiver narratives in terms of personal problem-solving processes and emotion regulation under conditions of chronic stress. This study addresses how caregiver-humor may function in this context. These caregivers exhibited and reported a variety of non-humorous coping strategies such as problem-solving to change aspects of the situation where appropriate. They evaluated and changed thoughts, feelings, and attitudes to develop new meaning, to find benefits, and to develop more integrated frames of reference for meeting caregiving challenges. Caregiver humor was embedded in this natural problem-solving process. This study extends support for the contentions from prior research and theory that humor can, under certain conditions, support stress relief and the development of attitudes that are conducive to promoting increased well-being in situations that seriously challenge or threaten valued outcomes. The personal experience narratives of these participants provide evidence that supports many humor theories and extends the range of their application. Participants utilized humor in ways that confront and to some extent resolve the incongruities of caregiving by regulating emotion and motivation, and by celebrating mastery and adaptation to life's challenges. The data support the proposition that, specifically, humor may diminish the impact of negative affect, and boost the motive power of positive affect in problem-solving processes. / text
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The determinants of children's and adults' behavioral processes in home and center based child careMalerba, Catherine Abbamonte 28 August 2008 (has links)
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The association among care given, perceived reciprocity, and frustration with caregiving for daughtersAlger, Georgina 11 July 1996 (has links)
Decreasing mortality rates and increasing life
expectancy are contributing factors in a trend currently
referred to as the "graying" of America. Some members of
this aging population will require caregiving support from
their families. Because women tend to outlive men, adult
daughters generally assume this important role for their
widowed mothers.
As the health of the care recipient declines, the
caregiver often suffers from stress or frustration. Some
current research links health declines with decreases in
elders' abilities to reciprocate instrumentally for care
received. Other research suggests elders compensate for
their inabilities to give instrumental aid such as advice
and money by continuing to give socioemotional aid such as
support and love. It is not known how caregiver stress
levels relate to the exchange of socioemotional aid.
Thus, this study examined the association among care
given, perceived reciprocity, and frustration with
daughters' caregiving. The question asked was: Does
perceived socioemotional aid moderate the impact of the
level of caregiving on frustration with caregiving for
daughters? Social exchange theory was the perspective
utilized for this research. This theory posits that an
individual's desire to reciprocate is due to a general moral
norm of obligation and that when people can/do reciprocate,
the relationship costs decline.
The sample for this study consisted of 164 dependent-mother/caregiving-daughter pairs. Frequencies, means, and
standard deviations of background characteristics of all
study participants were reported. A correlation matrix
showed the relationships among variables. A series of
multiple regressions were performed to examine the
relationships among the variables as well as the predicted
interaction.
Results indicated that increased care given to mothers
was a significant predictor of increased frustration with
caregiving for daughters, and increased perceived
socioemotional aid to daughters was a significant predictor
of decreased frustration with caregiving for daughters.
There was no interaction effect, however. That is, the
effect of the amount of care given on frustration was not
moderated by socioemotional aid from care recipients.
Limitations, implications, and recommendations for further
research are discussed. These recommendations include the need for additional research in the area of lifespan or
generalized reciprocity and intergenerational
relationships. / Graduation date: 1997
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Caregiver burden in the Latino familyArellanes-Amador, Yvonne 01 January 2006 (has links)
The study focused on the attitudes and beliefs regarding perceived and actual burden experienced by Latino caregivers and their use of formal support services. It also looked at the needs of Latino caregivers and explored their beliefs about why they had taken on the caregiver role, the responsibilities the role entailed, and coping skills used by these caregivers. Participants were obtained from two Alzheimer's caregiver support groups in the East Los Angeles area, and an adult day health care center in the high desert area of San Bernardino county. The author used both qualitative interviews and quantitative questionnaires. The findings suggest that high beliefs about responsibility to the family and low levels of service use may contribute to the stress and strain that these caregivers feel. Latino caregivers have been providing a significant amount of care without the help of sufficient formal services. Recommendations for social work practice, policy and further research are provided. Statistics for the study were generated by using SPSS Graduate Pack 13 for Windows.
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