
International Psychogeriatrics, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 100079 - 100079
Published: April 1, 2025
According to the sociocultural stress-and-coping model for family caregivers, caregiving stressors contribute directly caregivers' distress. In addition, there is another path explain this distress, as several cultural (e.g., familism) and cognitive variables dysfunctional thoughts) have important intermediate roles in pathway from stress particular, coping appear play intermediary pathway. The aim of study was provide longitudinal support two-paths model. Participants were 304 dementia caregivers who interviewed yearly during a 4-year period (5 assessment points). Sociodemographic variables, stressors, familism, thoughts about caregiving, fusion, leisure engagement, ambivalence, guilt depressive symptoms measured. paths established by tested. Greater greater reaction BPSD, increased guilt, reduced engagement activities associated with experience symptoms. However, (i.e., familism did not show direct association but fusion activities. Overall, explained 52.45 % variance through period. This provides proposed Specifically, factors are more distally related caregiver outcomes via their which turn proximally distress symptoms).
Language: Английский