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- Title
Look on the bright side: the relation between family values, positive aspects of care and caregiver burden.
- Authors
Zwar, Larissa; König, Hans-Helmut; Hajek, André
- Abstract
Family-centered values are important for caregiving. However, findings on their association with burden are inconsistent. We aim to analyze whether positive aspects of caregiving are mediating the effect of familism on burden among informal caregivers of older adults in Germany. Participants (n = 277) were drawn from the Attitudes Toward Informal Caregivers (ATTIC) project and include informal long-term caregivers of older relatives (aged ≥ 60) quota-sampled from Germany (December 2023). Mediation analyses (linear OLS regression) with robust standard errors were conducted with the classic and the counterfactual causal mediation framework. The classic approach indicated a significant positive direct effect of familism on burden, a significant negative direct effect of PAC on burden and a significant negative indirect effect of familism via PAC on burden; the total effect was not significant. The causal mediation approach supports this; the interaction between familism and PAC was not significant. Thus, sociocultural family-centered values seemed to worsen burden but also to reduce it through positive experiences of caregiving, which did not depend on the strength of familism values. The findings advance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the stress appraisal of the informal care situation and emphasize the role of positive experiences of care.
- Subjects
GERMANY; RESEARCH funding; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; BURDEN of care; FAMILY-centered care; PSYCHOLOGY of caregivers; FACTOR analysis; REGRESSION analysis; OLD age
- Publication
European Journal of Ageing, 2024, Vol 21, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1613-9372
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10433-024-00819-9