1. Care-giving burden and life satisfaction among family care-givers of disabled older adults in China: the moderator role of care-giver wisdom.
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Lu, Nan and Lou, Vivian W. Q.
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FAMILIES & psychology , *ELDER care , *INTELLECT , *SATISFACTION , *RESEARCH funding , *STATISTICAL sampling , *COMPASSION , *PATH analysis (Statistics) , *BURDEN of care , *OLDER people with disabilities , *PSYCHOLOGICAL stress , *PERSONALITY , *PSYCHOLOGY of caregivers , *NEEDS assessment , *THOUGHT & thinking - Abstract
Care-giving to older adults with disabilities could lead to relatively high levels of care-giving burden and low levels of life satisfaction among their family care-givers. However, there is a lack of research examining the role of care-giver wisdom in the above stress process model. This study examined the moderator role of wisdom in the relationship between care-giver burden and life satisfaction among family care-givers of disabled older adults in urban China. A multi-stage quota sampling method was used to recruit 789 disabled older adult–family care-giver dyads in Shanghai in 2013. The average age of older adults and their family care-givers was 84 and 63 years old, respectively. Multiple-group path analysis was conducted to examine the proposed hypotheses. The results showed that care-giver wisdom played a moderator role in the association between care-giver burden and life satisfaction. Care-giver burden was found to only negatively affect life satisfaction among care-givers with relatively low wisdom levels. The findings highlight the influences of care-giver wisdom on the relationship between burden and life satisfaction in Chinese contexts. The concept of wisdom should be used in needs assessment among family care-givers of older adults with disabilities. Future social interventions should focus on promoting care-givers' capacities of reflective thinking, their understandings of reality and their feelings of compassion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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