| Publication Abstract Display | | Type: Published Manuscript | | Title: Personal mastery attenuates the effect of caregiving stress on psychiatric morbidity. | | Authors: Mausbach BT | | Contact: Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0680, USA. | | Year: 2006 | | Publication: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease | | Volume: 194 Issue: 2 Pages: 132-4 | | Abstract:This study examined the protective effects of personal mastery on the relations between both objective and subjective stress and psychiatric morbidity in 79 spousal Alzheimer caregivers. Results indicated that with low mastery, the relations between patient problem behaviors and caregiver psychiatric symptoms was significant (t[71] = 2.03; p = 0.046). However, with high mastery, no significant association was found (t[71] = -0.76; p = 0.452). Similarly, the relations between role overload and psychiatric morbidity was significant when mastery was low (t[71] = 2.22; p = 0.029), but not high (t[71] = -1.49; p = 0.140). These results suggest that caregivers with a greater sense of personal mastery may be protected from the negative effects of caregiver stress. | | Funding: NIA:AG AG15301, NIA:AG AG23989 | | Keywords: Caregivers, Humans, Mental Disorders, Personal Autonomy, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Stress, Psychological |
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