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| Can culture help explain the physical health effects of caregiving over time among African American caregivers? | | Author(s) | Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, Paula Y Goodwin, Sharon Wallace Williams |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 59B, no 3, May 2004 |
| Pages | pp S138-S145 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Black people ; Family care ; Health [elderly] ; Stress ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study aimed to longitudinally examine the health outcomes of 107 African American caregivers who provided care to their older dependent family members, also to determine the role of culture in predicting health outcomes. Using Perlin and colleagues' 1990 stress and coping model as a guide, the direct effects of background characteristics and stressors and the direct and mediating effects of resources (including culture) on two caregiver health outcomes (psychological health and physical functioning) were analysed with hierarchical multiple regression analyses. As with other studies, the authors found that combinations of caregiver background characteristics, stressors and resources at Wave 1 had direct effects on the health outcomes of these caregivers at Wave 3. Unlike previous studies where culture was not measured, they found that cultural beliefs and values did help to explain health outcomes for African American caregivers. Specifically, cultural justifications for caregiving, baseline psychological health, psychosocial health and caregiving mastery predicted wave 3 psychosocial health. Caregiver education, number of morbidities, and physical functioning at Wave 1 were associated with physical functioning at Wave 3. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041103210 A |
| Classmark | TKE: P6:SJ: CC: QNH: 3J: 7T |
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