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JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Volume 55, Issue 3, Pages P142-P150Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/55.3.P142
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- NIA NIH HHS [AG 05142] Funding Source: Medline
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A sociocultural stress and coping model to explain emotional distress among caregivers of family memers who have dementia across ethnic and cultural groups is presented and explored in a sample of 41 African American and 128 non-African American caregivers. In this sample, African American caregivers reported lower levels of burden but equal levels of depression and anxiety. In the structural equation model, previous reports that African Americans' loner appraisal of caregiving as burdensome resulted in lower levels of emotional distress were confirmed. However, in this model, this pathway was counterbalanced by a tendency of African American caregivers to use emotion-focused coping and, therefore, increase emotional distress. African American caregivers were also younger and in poorer health, factors which tend to increase both burden and emotional distress outcomes. As suggested hy the sociocultural stress and coping model, the influences of ethnic group variables on stress and coping processes are complex and multidirectional.
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