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| Comparisons of African American and white women in the parent care role | | Author(s) | Tracela M White, Aloen L Townsend, Mary Ann Parris Stephens |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 40, no 6, December 2000 |
| Pages | pp 718-728 |
| Keywords | Black people ; White people ; Daughters as carers ; Depression ; Stress ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Little is known about African-American women's experiences providing care to impaired older relatives. This study investigated potential differences in depressive symptomatology, patient care stress and rewards, parent care mastery, and the quality of the parent care relationship between 261 White and 56 African American daughters and daughters-in-law who were providing care for an impaired parent or parent-in-law. African-American women reported less stress and more rewards in the parent care role than did White women. Race did not have a significant effect on caregivers' depressive symptomatology, parent care mastery or the quality relationship with the parent. However, the research demonstrates the importance of examining a broad range of caregiving experiences, to detect both similarities and differences between racial groups. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010130218 A |
| Classmark | TKE: TKA: P6:SSH: ENR: QNH: 48: 7T |
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