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Coping effectiveness — determinants and relevance to the mental health and affect of family caregivers of persons with dementia
Author(s)	B H Gottlieb, J A Rooney
Journal title	Aging & Mental Health, vol 8, no 4, July 2004
Pages	pp 364-373
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Dementia ; Family care ; Stress ; Adjustment ; Mental health [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Canada.
Annotation	141 Canadian family caregivers of people with dementia rated their effectiveness in coping with a challenging symptom displayed by their relative, and completed measures of their ways of coping, the general (optimism) and specific (caregiving self-efficacy) outcomes expectancies, their affect (positive and negative), and the mental health subscale of the SF-36. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that coping effectiveness is more highly influenced by relatively stable outcome expectancies than by the ways of coping that are employed. In addition, optimism exerted a consistent and relatively strong impact on affect and mental health, overshadowing the influence of coping and judgements of its effectiveness. However, coping effectiveness not only had a significant main effect on caregivers' mental health and negative affect, but also served a stress buffering function by reducing negative affect. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-040913210 A
Classmark	EA: P6:SJ: QNH: DR: D: 4C: 7S
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