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Social support and depressive symptoms
— differential patterns in wife and daughter caregivers | | Author(s) | Lydia Wailing Li, Marsha Mailick Seltzer, Jan S Greenberg |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 52B, no 4, July 1997 |
| Pages | pp S200-S211 |
| Keywords | Wives as carers ; Daughters as carers ; Informal care ; Depression ; Cross sectional surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This cross-sectional study examined how three types of social support - social participation, emotional support, and caregiving support - were related to depressive symptoms in wives caring for their ageing husband and daughters caring for their ageing parent. The authors investigated whether different dimensions of social support affect mental health via different mechanisms, and whether the context in which the support is needed and received will temper its effects. They found that social participation had a main effect on depressive symptoms for daughters but not for wives. Emotional support buffered the stress emanating from the husband's behaviour problems for wives. For daughters, emotional support buffered the stress emanating from both the behaviour problems and the activity of daily living (ADL) or instrumental ADL (IADL) limitations of the parent care recipient. Using caregiving as an example, data suggests that social support does not have uniform effects, rather, the type of stressor, the type of social support, and the individual context interact to result in the specific effect of support. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-971125278 A |
| Classmark | P6:SNW: P6:SSH: P6: ENR: 3KB: 7T |
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