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| Heart rate reactivity and depression in African-American and white dementia caregivers: reporting bias or positive coping? | | Author(s) | B G Knight, T J McCallum |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 2, no 3, August 1998 |
| Pages | pp 212-221 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; White people ; Black African ; Stress ; Depression ; Over 70s ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Caring for an older relative with dementia is a chronic stressor with mental health implications, but with unclear physical health implications. Two potential explanations of positive responses to stress are compared: the faking good hypothesis and the coping style of positive reappraisal of the stressor. In this US study, 110 white caregivers and 44 African-American caregivers were compared on cardiovascular reactivity to induced stress, self-reported depression and anxiety, and on two measures of positive appraisal of stress: the motivational distortion scale and a measure of positive reappraisal. Findings showed that African American caregivers used positive reappraisal more than white carers. Both groups showed significant heart rate reactivity in response to mental arithmetic and to relating a caregiver story. No evidence was found for influence of motivational distortion on heart rate reactivity. Positive reappraisal and self-reported depression were positively related to heart rate reactivity for white carers in both stress conditions. The study concluded that cultural differences appear to affect both emotional and physical reactions to caregiving stress. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980828407 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: TKA: TKF: QNH: ENR: BBK: 7T |
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