Motives for caring: Relationship to stress and coping dimensions

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 573-582

  Romero Moreno, R ^a   Marquez Gonzalez M ^b   Losada, A ^a   Lopez J ^c  

^a Dpto Ciencias de la Salud URJC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD SAN PABLO CEU   (Spain)

Author keywords

anger; anxiety; behavioral problems; cognitive reappraisal; culture; dementia caregivers; depression; rumination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CAREGIVER; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL JUSTIFICATIONS FOR CAREGIVING SCALE - REVISED; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FAMILY ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; RELIABILITY; RUMINATION; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EMPATHY; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; DEMENTIA; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 80051755304     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610210001821     Document Type: Article

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