碩士 / 輔仁大學 / 臨床心理學系碩士班 / 106 / Abstract
Aim. Preliminary evidence indicates that the caregivers’ attachment is related to higher psychological distress. In current study, for the first time, using the conceptual model of Alzheimer’s caregivers’ stress to explore the relationship between attachment, coping strategies, social support and psychological distress in dementia patients’ adult child.
Methods. Eighty participants recruited in public. Caregivers filled out a validated measure about their attachment style, the RWCCL to measure coping strategies, YSS to social support and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale.
Results. Emotional social support fully mediated attachment and psychological distress. When coping strategies was combined as a second serial mediator, it was found that emotional social support could lead to psychological distress through problem focused coping. On the other hand, the coping strategy, blame of others, played a partial mediator role was also found.
Conclusions. Adult child who were more unsecure attached reported less emotional social support perceived, which affect them using less problem focused coping. Instead of facing the caregiving problem directly, it seems that they tend to choose blame of others coping strategies which often leads to higher level of psychological distress. Interventions that aim to enhance the perception of emotional social support, such as support caregiving group intervention and suitable coping strategies and communicative skill training, such as gratitude intervention are recommended for caregivers with more unsecure attached. We suggests they are likely to benefit from such interventions.
Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease, attachment, coping strategies, social support, psychological distress
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/106FJU00821004 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Lee, Chieh-Ning, 李婕寧 |
| Contributors | Wang, Peng-Chih, 王鵬智 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 185 |
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