title: Psychological detachment and savoring in adaptation to cancer caregiving.
abstract: Recovery experience including psychological detachment from caregiving and savoring positive moments in life could be complementary coping processes for cancer caregivers. This study aims to examine the nature of their associations with caregiving burden and anxiety and depressive symptoms among Chinese cancer caregivers in Hong Kong.
  
  
  
  A total of 155 Chinese caregivers of recently diagnosed cancer patients (mean time since diagnosis = 42.57 days, SD = 39.25) were recruited from two major government-funded hospitals and administered a questionnaire assessing psychological detachment, savoring, caregiving burden, anxiety and depressive symptoms, and demographics.
  
  
  
  Controlling for demographic and medical covariates, structural equation modeling revealed significant associations of detachment, savoring, and their interaction term with caregiving burden and anxiety and depressive symptoms. Detachment and savoring were inversely associated with caregiving burden only when the other was at lower/medium levels. Detachment was inversely associated with anxiety and depressive symptoms at lower/medium levels of savoring, but savoring was inversely associated with anxiety and depressive symptoms across all levels of detachment.
  
  
  
  Detachment and savoring could overshadow the positive impact of the other on caregiving burden if either one is at higher levels, while they could demonstrate concurrent positive impact on burden when both are at lower/medium levels. Savoring could have a prioritized role in ameliorating caregivers' anxiety and depressive symptoms, supplemented by detachment. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological Studies, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.|Laboratory of Psychobiology of Emotion and Stress (LoPES), The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.|Centre for Psychosocial Health, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Wai Kai
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological Studies, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.|Laboratory of Psychobiology of Emotion and Stress (LoPES), The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Kam Man
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Lau
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological Studies, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.|Laboratory of Psychobiology of Emotion and Stress (LoPES), The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Sin Man
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Ng
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.|Laboratory of Neuropsychology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Tatia Mei Chun
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Hester Yui Shan
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Cheung
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Tracy Chui Yu
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Shum
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Ashley Chi Kin
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012944:Social Support; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires