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| Attachment style and emotion regulation in dementia patients and their relation to caregiver burden | | Author(s) | Carol Magai, Carl I Cohen |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 53B, no 3, May 1998 |
| Pages | pp P147-P154 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; Emotions ; Stress ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | One hundred and sixty-eight patients with mid- to late-stage dementia and their caregivers participated in this US study of the relationship between patient emotional characteristics, dementia symptomatology, and caregiver burden. Measures included premorbid attachment style, premorbid emotion regulation style, and behavioural symptoms of dementia. The attachment patterns (secure, avoidant, ambivalent) of these older patients resembled those obtained in samples of younger individuals in terms of emotion regulation characteristics; however, the distribution of attachment styles was significantly different, with a lower proportion of ambivalently attached individuals in the present sample. In terms of the behavioural symptoms of dementia, ambivalent patients had more depression and anxiety than secure and avoidant patients; the latter patients experienced more activity disturbance than ambivalently attached individuals and were higher on paranoid symptomatology than securely attached persons. Caregivers of securely attached individuals experienced less total burden than did caregivers of both insecure groups. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980813412 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: DL: QNH: 7T |
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