| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| Negative affectivity and emotion-focused coping in spouse caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease | | Author(s) | Zeeshan A Butt, Milton E Strauss, Kathleen A Smyth |
| Journal title | Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 21, no 4, December 2002 |
| Pages | pp 471-483 |
| Keywords | Emotions ; Attitude ; Stress ; Spouses as carers ; Dementia ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Several studies have noted that spouse caregivers' negative affectivity (or neuroticism) is associated with the use of emotion-focused coping strategies. This association may be artificially inflated, however, due to the mode of assessment commonly used in such studies. In this study, the relationship is examined between self-reporting and informant reporting of negative affectivity and self-reported coping. Informants, 39 adult children of caregivers, completed the NEO-Five Factor Index, in which they described their caregiver parents prior to the onset of dementia in the other parent. Caregivers completed measures of current coping and distress. Only emotion-focused coping showed a tendency to be more highly correlated with self-reported than with informant-reported negative affectivity. Use of emotion-focused coping may reflect a reciprocal interaction between these two variables and may therefore overestimate the association. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021216247 A |
| Classmark | DL: DP: QNH: P6:SN: EA: 7T |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|