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The influence of parental bonding on emotional distress in caregiving sons for a parent with dementia
Author(s)	Andrew P Daire
Journal title	The Gerontologist, vol 42, no 6, December 2002
Pages	pp 766-771
Keywords	Dementia ; Sons as carers ; Family relationships ; Parents ; Children [offspring] ; Stress ; United States of America.
Annotation	The influence is investigated of childhood parental bonding on emotional distress experienced by primary caregiving sons for parents with dementia. Data from 40 participants were obtained using the Parental Bonding Inventory (PBI), the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), and Caregivers Survey Questionnaire (CSQ). A multivariate analysis of variance was conducted to investigate any main effects or interaction between the two PBI bonding variables (care and overprotection) and the two distress variables (the BSI's Global Severity Index and the CSQ distress percentage). Caregiving sons who identified more care in the childhood bond with their parent attributed less distress to their primary caregiver role. Sons reporting less care attributed more distress to the primary caregiver role. Thus, the parental bond developed during childhood may play a role in predicting the extent to which caregiving sons will attribute distress to their caregiving role. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-030305203 A
Classmark	EA: P6:SSA: DS:SJ: SR: SS: QNH: 7T
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