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Sources of support and interpersonal stress in the networks of married caregiving daughters
— findings from a 2-year longitudinal study | | Author(s) | J Jill Suitor, Karl Pillemer |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 51B, no 6, November 1996 |
| Pages | pp S297-S306 |
| Keywords | Daughters as carers ; Social contacts ; Siblings ; Friends ; Stress ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This research uses data collected on 57 married daughters and 1,069 members of their social networks, to examine patterns of social support and interpersonal stress across the first two years of caring for parents with dementia. Reports by the caregivers indicated that friends were the main source of emotional support, while siblings were the greatest source of instrumental support and interpersonal stress, both shortly after the parents' diagnosis and two years later. Multivariate analyses demonstrated that associates who had cared for family members themselves were more likely to have been sources of instrumental support both shortly after diagnosis (T1) and two years later. Caregiving similarity was also the most important factor in explaining both emotional support and interpersonal stress at T1; however, its effect diminished during the next two years. These findings suggest that experiential similarity may become less important in explaining some dimensions of interpersonal relations as individuals move further from status transitions. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971125234 A |
| Classmark | P6:SSH: TOA: SV: SX: QNH: 3J: 7T |
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