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The attenuating effect of personal mastery on the relations between stress and Alzheimer caregiver health
— a five-year longitudinal analysis |
| Author(s) | B T Mausbach, T L Patterson, R Von Känel |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 11, no 6, November 2007 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, November 2007 |
| Pages | pp 637-644 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Spouses as carers ; Stress ; Adjustment ; Morale ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | 130 spousal caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) recruited through the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) completed yearly assessments of personal mastery, role overload, health symptoms and depressive symptoms. Random regression was used to evaluate the relations between time-varying values for stress and mastery in predicting depressive and health symptoms. Variation in depressive symptoms over time was found to be significantly related to role overload and personal mastery. A significant overload-by-mastery interaction was found for predicting depressive symptoms and caregiver health, whereby mastery attenuated the effects of stress on these outcomes. Personal mastery appears to reduce the effects of stress on depression and health outcomes over time. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080327215 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SN: QNH: DR: DQ: 3J: 7T |
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