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| Personality counts for a lot: predictors of mental and physical health of spouse caregivers in two disease groups | | Author(s) | Karen Hooker, Deborah J Monahan, Sally R Bowman |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 53B, no 2, March 1998 |
| Pages | pp P73-P85 |
| Keywords | Spouses as carers ; Parkinson's disease ; Dementia ; Health [elderly] ; Mental health [elderly] ; Personality ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The aims of this US study were to examine the influence of personality on mental and physical health of spouse caregivers and to determine whether there were differences in such influences depending on disease context. The disease contexts compared were Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD). Participants in the study were 175 caregivers living at home with their ill spouses. Findings revealed that personality had significant direct and indirect effects on mental health and significant indirect effects on physical health. As predicted, AD caregivers had significantly worse mental health than PD caregivers; however, AD caregivers had better physical health than PD caregivers, controlling for other variables. These results are discussed in relation to the existing caregiving and behavioural medicine literature. It is suggested that future research should include different domains of personality to advance models of caregiving processes further. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980602401 A |
| Classmark | P6:SN: CR6: EA: CC: D: DK: 7T |
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