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Change in depressive symptoms among daughter caregivers
— an 18-month longitudinal study | | Author(s) | Lydia Wailing Li, Marsha Mailick Seltzer, Jan Steven Greenberg |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 14, no 2, June 1999 |
| Pages | pp 206-219 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Daughters as carers ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The data for this analysis are taken from the first two waves of a longitudinal study of women caregivers in Wisconsin: 115 daughters providing care to an ageing parent. The levels of depressive symptoms manifested by these daughters were relatively low, with only 23.5% scoring in the clinical range during the study. Nevertheless, there was substantive change in depressive symptoms among the daughters during the 18 months. Daughters with higher levels of mastery were more likely to use problem-focused coping strategies, which led to reductions in depression, whereas daughters with lower levels of mastery were more likely to use emotion-focused coping, which led to increased levels of depression. Mastery was higher when the caregiving role was shared with a sibling. It was lower if the daughter had other caregiving responsibilities, and if the parent care recipient had more behaviour problems with which to cope. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990825213 A |
| Classmark | ENR: P6:SSH: 3J: 7T |
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