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Contextual or general stress outcomes
— making choices through caregiving appraisals | | Author(s) | Valerie Braithwaite |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 40, no 6, December 2000 |
| Pages | pp 706-717 |
| Keywords | Stress ; Informal care ; Well being ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Considerable debate has surrounded the choice of outcome measures for caregiving stress research. This study examined six dimensions of caregiving appraisal as predictors of minor psychiatric symptoms, affect balance and burden. Burden and symptoms were both high, and affect was poor when caregivers held appraisals that reflected (a) low personal resilience and (b) a conflict-ridden and dysfunctional relationship with the care receiver. When caregivers reported (c) expending considerable energy in maintaining their social networks, burden was also high, with some risk of symptoms, but affect was positive. The fourth appraisal, (d) a close loving caregiver-care receiver relationship, positively correlated with general well-being, but not with burden. Dealing with heavy workload (e) in providing care was linked with poor affect, but neither symptoms nor burden. Finally, (f) caring at a distance was related to burden, but not to general outcome measures. The study provides little support for the unconditional superiority of general or contextual well-being measures. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010130217 A |
| Classmark | QNH: P6: D:F:5HH: 4C: 7T |
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