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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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Ageing & Society . Mar2024, Vol. 44 Issue 3, p704-720. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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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]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0144686X
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Ageing & Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176329842
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X22000496