title: "It takes two to take": Caregiving style, relational entitlement, and medication adherence.
abstract: Partners' support has been associated with both patients' increased and decreased inclination toward health-promoting behaviors. Our hypothesis for understanding this enigma is that it is the interplay between partners' manner of care provision and patients' ability to accept these care efforts that may best predict patients' adherence. Thus, the current study's main goal was to examine the contribution of the interaction between caregivers' support style (sensitive and compulsive) and cardiac patients' sense of relational entitlement (restricted, excessive, assertive, entitlement expectations) to patients' medication adherence. The Adult Caregiving Questionnaire, the Sense of Relational Entitlement Scale, and the Medication Adherence Report Scale were administered to 114 cardiac patients and their partners, during patients' hospitalizations and 6 months later. The lowest levels of medication adherence were detected among patients high on restricted entitlement who were married to partners high on compulsive caregiving style. These findings strengthen our claim that it is the interaction between recipients' personality and providers' support style which explain self-regulatory processes that arise during times of family medical crises. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors: Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University.
authors: Sivan
authors: S
authors: George-Levi
authors: Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University.
authors: Noa
authors: N
authors: Vilchinsky
authors: The Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC).
authors: Rami
authors: R
authors: Tolmacz
authors: Department of Cardiology, Meir Medical Center.
authors: Abid
authors: A
authors: Khaskiaa
authors: Department of Cardiology, Meir Medical Center.
authors: Morris
authors: M
authors: Mosseri
authors: Department of Cardiology, Sheba Medical Center.
authors: Hanoch
authors: H
authors: Hod
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055118:Medication Adherence / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D018454:Spouses / Q000523:psychology*