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| Personal losses and relationship quality in dementia caregiving | | Author(s) | Kathryn Betts Adams, McKee J McClendon, Kathleen A Smyth |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 7, no 3, August 2008 |
| Pages | pp 301-320 |
| Source | http://www.dem.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family relationships ; Informal care ; Depression ; Stress ; Cross sectional surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Models of the dementia caregiving stress process specify that the impairments and behavioural problems of the person with Alzheimer's disease or related disorder (ADRD) and primary subjective stressors, such as burden, along with secondary stressors and appraisals, lead to negative outcomes such as depression. This cross-sectional study focused on the affective and relational aspects of this process, examining the associations of personal and relational losses and perceived relationships quality to ADRD caregivers' depressive symptoms, using a series of multiple regression to specify a path model. The theoretical model specified personal losses and the subjective relationship quality as intervening variables between the care recipient impairments and subsequent subjective stressors, overload and role captivity. Loss of intimate exchange, current quality of relationship, and loss of self each had direct or indirect effects on caregiver depression that suggest the important role of personal and relational losses in the stress process. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080822202 A |
| Classmark | EA: DS:SJ: P6: ENR: QNH: 3KB: 7T |
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