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| Meaning in caregiving and its contribution to caregiver well-being | | Author(s) | Anne E Noonan, Sharon L Tennstedt |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 37, no 6, December 1997 |
| Pages | pp 785-794 |
| Keywords | Family care ; Well being ; Depression ; Self esteem ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This multivariate study examined the relationship between meaning in caregiving - positive beliefs about the caregiving situation and the self as caregiver - and the psychological well-being of 131 informal caregivers to community-residing frail older people in the United States (US). Measures of well-being included depression, self-esteem, mastery, role captivity, and loss of self. Meaning in caregiving explained a significant portion of the differences in depression and self-esteem scores even after demographic and stressor variables had been controlled. Meaning was not related to mastery, role captivity, or loss of self. The article concludes with a discussion of the conceptual parameters of meaning in caregiving, and suggestions for future research. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980309409 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: D:F:5HH: ENR: DPA: 7T |
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