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Adult daughters and aging mothers
— the role of guilt in the experience of caregiver burden |
| Author(s) | Judith G Gonyea, Ruth Paris, Lisa de Saxe Zerden |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 12, no 5, September 2008 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, September 2008 |
| Pages | pp 559-567 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Daughters as carers ; Mother ; Family relationships ; Emotions ; Stress ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Although guilt is often identified as being a common emotion experienced by family caregivers in the clinical literature and in small descriptive studies, it has only recently emerged as a construct in the empirical research focused on identifying predictors of caregiver distress. The authors use Perlin's stress process model and data from 60 midlife adult daughters caring for ageing mothers to explore the extent to which guilt contributes to caregiver burden. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that guilt was positively correlated with burden and that it accounted for a significant amount of the variance in caregivers' sense of burden, even after controlling for contextual and stressor variables. The research suggests the importance of clinicians seeking to understand how individuals judge their caregiving performance and targeting negative self-appraisals, which affect individuals' mental health, for change. The challenge for clinicians is to help guilt-ridden caregivers revise their evaluative standards and engage in self-forgiveness and self-acceptance. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081124232 A |
| Classmark | P6:SSH: SRM: DS:SJ: DL: QNH: 7T |
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