title: Recipient-provider agreement on enacted support, perceived support, and provider personality.
abstract: This study examined agreement between recipients and providers about social support and personality. One hundred daughter caregivers of a parent with Alzheimer's disease and each caregiver's most important support provider independently reported supportive behaviors provided to caregivers, the perceived supportiveness of the provider, and providers' personality traits. For all indices, agreement was higher for enacted support than for perceived support and personality, which were similar to each other for some, but not all, indices of agreement. These findings support the validity of measures of enacted and perceived support.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA. jay.cohen@wayne.edu
authors.forename: Jay L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lakey
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tiell
authors.forename: Lynn C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Neeley
mesh_terms: D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000523:psychology; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D012938:Social Perception; D012944:Social Support