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| Neuroticism, coping strategies, and negative well-being among caregivers | | Author(s) | Julie Hicks Patrick, Jason M Hayden |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 14, no 2, June 1999 |
| Pages | pp 273-283 |
| Keywords | Family care ; Older women ; Well being ; Neuroses ; Stress ; Mathematical models ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Neuroticism was incorporated into a model of predicting the well-being of family caregivers. Using data from 596 women with an adult child with a chronic disability, the model hypothesises direct effects of neuroticism on a caregiver's perceptions of the stressor, on her wishful-escapism and problem-focused coping, and on psychological well-being. Results indicate that neuroticism exerts direct and indirect effects on negative well-being. Results also indicate that stressors also have direct effects on both wishful-escapism coping and problem-focused coping. Burden had direct effects on negative psychological well-being. Diagnosis influences the model by having direct effects on stressors and wishful-escapism coping but not on problem-focused coping or burden. Inclusion of individual level variables, such as neuroticism, results in a substantial amount of explained variance in negative well-being. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990825218 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: BD: D:F:5HH: EN: QNH: 3LM: 7T |
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