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PSYCHOLOGY AND AGING
Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages 592-604Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/a0022209
Keywords
five-factor model personality traits; subjective health; self-rated health; self efficacy; caregiver strain
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- NIDA NIH HHS [R01 DA026652-19, R01 DA026652] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [K24 MH072712-05, MH072712, K24 MH072712] Funding Source: Medline
- PHS HHS [DAO26652] Funding Source: Medline
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This study examined the association among caregivers' five-factor personality traits and subjective health with particular emphasis on the role of two theoretically implicated mediators: multi-domain self-efficacy and caregiver strain. The sample comprised 536 informal caregivers (mean age = 62.9 years, SD = 19.9, 72% female, 98% White) of community-dwelling older adults with multiple functional impairments. Both physical health and mental health were negatively associated with neuroticism and positively associated with extraversion and conscientiousness. Agreeableness and openness were associated with better subjective mental health and physical health, respectively. Multiple mediation analyses indicated that self-efficacy mediated all observed associations between personality and subjective health, whereas caregiver strain selectively mediated the associations of neuroticism and agreeableness with mental health.
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