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| A cross-cultural validation of coping strategies and their associations with caregiving distress | | Author(s) | William S Shaw, Thomas L Patterson, Shirley J Semple |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 37, no 4, August 1997 |
| Pages | pp 490-504 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; Adjustment ; Depression ; Stress ; Social roles ; Cross cultural surveys ; China ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In this study, coping strategies were compared among family caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients in Shanghai, China and San Diego, California. Four coping factors were reliably consistent in both samples, supporting their widespread relevance to life adversity: behavioural confronting, behavioural distancing/social support, cognitive confronting, and cognitive distancing. Chinese and American caregivers endorsed similar rates of coping, but Chinese caregivers reported fewer symptoms of depression and anxiety. Although coping strategies were similar, cultural ideals promoting family interdependence, veneration of older family members, and acceptance of traditional family roles may have reduced the psychological impacts of caregiving in the Shanghai sample. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980605408 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: DR: ENR: QNH: TM5: 3KA: 7DC: 7T |
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