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Perceived control, coping and expressed burden among spouses of suspected dementia patients
— analysis of the goodness-of-fit hypothesis | | Author(s) | Norm O'Rourke, Philippe Cappeliez |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 21, no 3, Fall 2002 |
| Pages | pp 385-392 |
| Keywords | Stress ; Adjustment ; Spouses as carers ; Dementia ; Evaluation ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The goodness-of-fit hypothesis contends that distress is the result of the incongruence between choices of coping strategy and the perceived ability to change stressful stimuli. Goal-directed or active coping responses are believed to be most efficacious when the individual believes s/he can change or control perceived threats (i.e. problem-focused coping). Instances in which stressors must be accepted, however, would dictate reliance upon strategies to regulated distress (i.e. emotion-focused coping). Inconsistent support for this facet of Lazarus and Folkman's cognitive phenomenological model was obtained in this study of spouses of patients with suspected dementia. The distinction between emotion- and problem-focused coping appears less germane than overall coping efforts relative to perceived control and caregiver burden. In addition, perceived ability to control dementia-related stressors appears to be somewhat independent of coping by caregivers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021101223 A |
| Classmark | QNH: DR: P6:SN: EA: 4C: 7S |
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