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Employed family caregivers of cognitively impaired elderly
— an examination of role strain and depressive symptoms | | Author(s) | A B Edwards, S H Zarit, M A P Stephens |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 6, no 1, February 2002 |
| Pages | pp 55-61 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Family care ; Employment ; Cognitive impairment ; Stress ; Depression ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Employed and non-employed caregivers of cognitively impaired elderly family members are compared. The authors use role conflict and role expansion (two competing positions derived from role theory) to explore whether holding the positions of both caregiver and worker led to greater role overload and psychological role conflict, or provided an outlet that helps. caregivers better manage the demands placed on them. No differences were found between employed and non-employed caregivers on measures of role overload, worry and strain, and depression. For working caregivers, however, greater conflict on the job was associated with higher role overload and worry and strain, while beneficial work experiences were only weakly associated with lower role overload and worry and strain. There was an interaction effect between positive work experiences and role overload when predicting depressive symptoms. These results provide some support for role conflict, but also suggest that caregivers may vary considerably in how they adapt to multiple roles. (KJ/RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-020305206 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: WJ: E4: QNH: ENR: 7T |
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