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| The role of neuroticism and mastery in spouse caregivers' assessment of and response to a contextual stressor | | Author(s) | Jamila Bookwala, Richard Schulz |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 53B, no 3, May 1998 |
| Pages | pp P155-P164 |
| Keywords | Spouses as carers ; Personality ; Emotions ; Stress ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In this US study, data from more than 300 spouse caregivers and their care recipients were analysed to demonstrate the effects of caregivers' personality attributes - neuroticism and mastery - on their assessment of a contextual stressor (the care recipient's behavioural and functional impairment) and on their experience of distress associated with that stressor. Caregivers who were high in neuroticism and/or low in mastery reported higher levels of behavioural and functional impairment in their disabled spouse and experienced more strain and depressive symptoms associated with caregiving relative to caregivers with lower neuroticism or higher mastery scores. The study showed that the widely reported association between caregiver-assessed impairment of the care recipient and caregiver outcomes can in part be explained by caregivers' personality attributes, such as neuroticism and mastery. These findings have implications for interventions targeting caregivers and for the use of caregivers as proxy informants. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980813413 A |
| Classmark | P6:SN: DK: DL: QNH: 7T |
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