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Examining the social context in the caregiving experience
— correlates of global self-esteem among adult daughter caregivers to an older parent with cancer | | Author(s) | Yaacov G Bachner, Dan Karus, Victoria H Raveis |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 21, no 7, October 2009 |
| Pages | pp 1016-1039 |
| Source | http://jah.sagepub.com/ |
| Keywords | Daughters as carers ; Self esteem ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Cancer ; Out-patients ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study's aim was to examine the associations between various patient, disease, situation, and caregiver characteristics (organised by five conceptual domains) and global self-esteem among caregiver daughters to parents with cancer. Dyads comprising 237 cancer outpatients and their adult caregiving daughter completed structured telephone interviews. Two of the five domains of potential correlates significantly predicted caregiving daughters' global self-esteem: daughters' sociodemographics, and constraints on or facilitators of caregiving. Daughters' overall sense of self-worth was directly correlated with their household income and inversely correlated with greater depressive affect and the number of patient needs for which someone else provided assistance. It was also correlated with the daughters' other role obligations. A higher sense of self-worth was associated with either being employed or having to care for a child or grandchild. A lower sense of self-worth was associated with having a spouse/partner. The present analysis documents the complexity of social connectedness, demonstrating that various role obligations contribute to caregiving daughters' global self-esteem in different ways. In the context of assuming cancer care provision, daughters' existing repertoire of social roles may possibly mediate the stress associated with their care involvement or serve as a buffer against the strain of the caregiving experience. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100125202 A |
| Classmark | P6:SSH: DPA: F: CK: LFB: 49: 7T |
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