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Social support and caregiver distress
— a replication analysis | | Author(s) | Baila Miller, Aloen Townsend, Elizabeth Carpenter, |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 56B, no 4, July 2001 |
| Pages | pp S249-S256 |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Depression ; Stress ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Previous studies have conceptualised and operationalised social support in different ways, making it difficult to determine if inconsistencies in findings are due to differences in study design, conceptualisation or measurement. The present study examined the replicability of models of social support and caregiver distress across four community-based caregiving studies representative of many conducted in the last 10 years. The aim was to identify areas of consistency of findings across data sets. Three models specifying patterns of relationship between social support and depression (main effect, mediation effect, and moderation effect) separately within data sets were analysed. The replication analysis confirmed the robustness of behaviour problems and caregiver health as important contributors to caregiver distress. However, results of hypotheses examining the pattern of relationship between social support and distress were inconsistent. Models are required that represent the linkages between types of stressor, types of support, and their interactions. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010814212 A |
| Classmark | P6: ENR: QNH: 4C: 7T |
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