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Mental health of aging women with children who are chronically disabled
— examination of a two-factor model | | Author(s) | Rachel A Pruchno, Julie Hicks Patrick, Christopher J Burant |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 51B, no 6, November 1996 |
| Pages | pp S284-S296 |
| Keywords | Older women ; Well being ; Children ; Mental disorder ; Schizophrenia ; Mathematical models ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data were collected from 838 women aged over 50, who have a child with either a developmental disability or schizophrenia. Lawton et al's parallel channel hypothesis (A two-factor model of caregiving appraisal and psychological well-being, 1991), which suggests that positive and negative aspects of mental health have differential predictors, was tested. Results indicate that positive caregiving appraisals were predicted by quality of the mother-child relationship, while negative caregiving appraisals were predicted by the amount of help the mother provided to her child, her health, the child's behaviours, and positive appraisals. Positive well-being was predicted by mother's health, positive appraisals, and negative appraisals; while negative well-being was predicted by mother's health, child's behaviours, and negative appraisals. The data support the usefulness of the hypothesised model. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971125233 A |
| Classmark | BD: D:F:5HH: SBC: E: ELK: 3LM: 7T |
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