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Gender differences in positive aspects of caregiving
57th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC, November 2004
2004
Abstract
Men are expected to take on increasing roles in dementia caregiving in the future, but little is known about how they appraise such roles when compared with women.
We examined differences in measures of positive aspects of caregiving (PAC) among 141 male and 468 female caregiver s of individuals with Alzheimer's disease from the NIH Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer 's Care Health (REACH) study sites in Birmingham, Memphis and Philadelphia. Men reported higher scores on the self-affirmation subscale of the PAC measure [24.0 v 22.3, t (638) = 3.01, p<.01) but d id not differ on the out look on life subscale [12.0 v 11.9, t (638) = 0.31 , p=.75).
We then examined three categories of variables that might help explain the relationship between gender and self -affirmation - demographic characteristics o f the caregiver, psychosocial characteristics of the caregiver and characteristics related to the caregiving situation. Religiosity, anxiety, depression, behavioral bother and social support were related to both gender and the self -affirmation subscale.
Subsequent mediation analysis suggested t hat religiosity and social support suppressed the relationship between gender and self-affirmation and anxiety mediated this relationship. Sobel statistics for depression and behavioral bother indicated that neither variable had a statistically significant impact on the relationship between gender and self-affirmation. Our results suggest that the relationship between self -affirmation and gender is complex and partially masked by gender differences in religiosity and social support.
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- Title
- Gender differences in positive aspects of caregiving
- Publication Details
- 57th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC, November 2004
- Resource Type
- Conference presentation
- Copyright
- Permission granted to the University of West Florida Libraries to digitize and/or display this information for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires the permission of the copyright holder.
- Identifiers
- 99380090356406600
- Academic Unit
- Usha Kundu, MD College of Health; Former Faculty
- Language
- English