Anger, spiritual meaning and support from the religious community in dementia caregiving.
This study explores the relationships between spiritual meaning and social support from the religious community and problem behaviors, anger and depression in 128 dementia caregivers. The results suggest a mediating role of anger in the relationship between the appraisal of problem behaviors and depression. Support from the religious community is directly and negatively associated with anger, but the relationship between spiritual meaning and anger is mediated by caregivers' appraisals of problem behaviors, suggesting that spiritual beliefs might help caregivers to find meaning in caregiving experiences and thus appraise care recipients' behavioral problems as less stressful.
Márquez-González
María
M
Facultad de Psicología, Departamento de Psicología Clínica y de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain. maria.marquez@uam.es
López
Javier
J
Romero-Moreno
Rosa
R
Losada
Andrés
A
D000368:Aged; D000786:Anger; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D003704:Dementia / Q000451:nursing*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012067:Religion; D012944:Social Support; D013030:Spain
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