Ethnicity, familism and willingness to care: Important influences on caregiver mood?

Aging and Mental Health

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 115-124

  Parveen, Sahdia ^a   Morrison, Val ^a   Robinson, Catherine A ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anxiety; caregivers; depression; ethnicity; familism; willingness to care

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAREGIVER; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ANXIETY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CAREGIVERS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873350931     PISSN: 13607863     EISSN: 13646915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2012.717251     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Abell, N. (2001). Assessing willingness to care for persons with AIDS: Validation of a new measure. Research on Social Work Practice, 11, 118-130.
2. Angel, R., & Thoits, P. (1987). The impact of culture on the cognitive structure of illness. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 11, 465-494.
3. Aranda, M.P., & Knight, B.G. (1997). The influence of ethnicity and culture on the caregiver stress and coping process: A socio-cultural review and analysis. The Gerontologist, 37, 342-354.
4. Atkin, K., & Rollings, J. (1992). Informal care in Asian and Afro/Caribbean communities: A literature review. British Journal of Social Work, 22, 405-118.
5. Bakas, T., & Burgener, S.C. (2002). Predictors of emotional distress, general health and caregiving outcomes in family caregivers of stroke survivors. Topics in Stroke and Rehabilitation, 9, 34-45.
6. Bridges, B.J. (1995). Therapeutic caregiving: A practical guide for caregivers of person's with Alzheimer's disease and other dementia causing diseases. Washington, DC: BJB.
7. Burridge, L., Winch, S., & Clavarino, A. (2007). Reluctance to care: A systematic review and development of a conceptual framework. Cancer Nursing, 30, 9-19.
8. Carers UK (2007). Support for Black, Asian and minority ethnic carers: A good practice briefing. [Brochure]. London: Author.
9. Carers UK (2009). Facts about carers [Brochure]. London: Author.
10. Carver, C.S. (1997). You want to measure coping but your protocol's too long: Consider the brief COPE. International Journal of Behavioural Medicine, 4, 92-100.
11. Census (2001). Office for National statistics; General Register Office for Scotland. Retrieved from www.statistics.gov.uk
12. Chada, R.K., Singh, T.B., & Ganguly, K.K. (2007). Caregiver burden and coping. Social Psychiatry, 42, 923-930.
13. Chun, M., Knight, B.G., & Youn, G. (2007). Differences in stress and coping models of emotional distress among Korean, Korean American and White-American care- givers. Aging & Mental Health, 11, 20-29.
14. Crist, J., McEwen, M.M., Herrera, A.P., Kim, S.S., Pasvogel, A., & Hepworth, J.T. (2009). Caregiving burden, acculturation, familism and Mexican elders' use of home care services. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice, 23, 165-180.
15. Davis, J.G., Hermanson, K., Koopman, C.L., Weibel, D., & Spiegel, D. (2000). Quality of couples' relationship and adjustment to metastatic breast cancer. Journal of Family Psychology, 14, 251-266.
16. Dein, S. (2004). Explanatory models of and attitudes towards cancer in different cultures. The Lancet Oncology, 5, 119-124.
17. Dilworth-Anderson, P., Williams, I.C., & Gibson, B.E. (2000). Issues of race, ethnicity and culture in caregiving research: A 20 year review 1980-2000. The Gerontologist, 42, 237-272.
18. Eshiett, M.U.-A., & Parry, E.H.O. (2003). Migrants and health: A cultural dilemma. Clinical Medicine, 3, 229-231.
19. Goode, K.T., Hayley, W.E., Roth, D.L., & Ford, G.R. (1998). Predicting longitudinal changes in caregiver physical and mental health: A stress process model. Health Psychology, 17, 190-198.
20. Gupta, R. (2002). Impact of mental health on perceived caregiver burden in South Asian families. Journal of Mental Health and Aging, 8, 45-57.
21. Gupta, R., Rowe, N., & Pillai, V.K. (2009). Perceived caregiver burden in India: Implications for social services. Affilia: Journal of Women & Social Work, 24, 69-79.
22. Haley, W.E., Levine, E.G., Brown, S.L., & Bartolucci, A.A. (1987). Stress, appraisal, coping and social support as predictors of adaptational outcome among dementia caregivers. Psychology and Aging, 2, 323-330.
23. Heller, P.L. (1976). Familism scale: Revalidation and revision. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 38, 423-129.
24. Henry, A., & Schott, J. (1999). Culture, religion and patient care in a multi-ethnic society: A handbook for professionals. England: Age Concern.
25. Hepworth, D. (2005). Asian carers' perceptions of care assessment and support in the community. British Journal of Social Work, 35, 337-353.
26. Hussain, A.F., & Cochrane, R. (2003). Living with depression: Coping strategies used by South Asian women living in the UK, suffering from depression. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 6, 21-14.
27. Katbamna, S., Ahmad, W., Bhakta, P., Baker, R., & Parker, G. (2004). Do they look after their own? Informal support for South Asian carer. Health and Social Care in the Community, 12, 398-406.
28. Katbamna, S., & Bhakta, P. (1998). Experiences and needs of carers from the South-Asian communities (Working Paper No. 62). Leicester: Nuffield Community Care Studies (NCCSU), University of Leicester.
29. Kim, Y., & Schulz, R. (2008). Family caregiver's strain: Comparative analysis of cancer caregiving with dementia, diabetes, and frail elderly caregiving. Journal of Aging and Health, 20, 483-503.
30. Knight, B.G., & Sayegh, P. (2010). Cultural values and caregiving: The updated socio-cultural stress and coping model. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 65B, 5-13.
31. Lai, D.W.L. (2007). Cultural predictors of caregiving burden of Chinese Canadian family caregivers. Canadian Journal on Aging - Revue Canadienne Du Vieillissement, 26, 133-147.
32. Lazarus, R.S. (1999). Stress and emotions: A new synthesis. London: Free Association Books.
33. Lazarus, R.S. (2000). Towards better research on stress and coping. American Psychologist, 55, 665-673.
34. Lazarus, R.S., & Folkman, S. (1984). Stress, appraisal, and coping. New York, NY: Springer.
35. Lee, E.E., & Farran, C.J. (2004). Depression among Korean, Korean American, and Caucasian American family caregivers. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 15, 18-25.
36. Losada, A., Robinson, G.S., Knight, B.G., Marquez, M., Montorio, I., Izal, M., & Ruiz, M.A. (2006). Cross- cultural study comparing the association of familism with burden and depressive symptoms in two samples of Hispanic dementia caregivers. Aging & Mental Health, 10, 69-76.
37. Mackenzie, A., Perry, L., Lockhart, E., Cottee, M., Cloud, G., & Mann, H. (2007). Family carers of stroke survivors: Needs, knowledge, satisfaction and competence in caring. Disability and Rehabilitation, 29, 111-121.
38. Mann, R. (2009). Evolving family structures, roles and relationships in light of ethnic and social change. Retrieved from http://www. beyondcurrenthorizons.org.uk
39. McMillan, S.C., Small, B.J., Schonwetter, R., Tittle, M., Moody, L., & Haley, W.E. (2005). Impact of coping skills intervention with family caregivers of hospice patients with cancer: A randomized clinical trial. Cancer, 106, 214-222.
40. Miller, B., Townsend, A., Carpenter, E., Montgomey, R.V.J., Stull, D., & Young, R.F. (2001). Social support and caregiver distress: A replication analysis. Journal of Gerontology, 56B, 249-256.
41. Mir, G., & Tovey, P. (2003). Asian carers' experiences of medical and social care: The case of cerebral palsy. British Journal of Social Work, 33, 465-479.
42. Pakenham, K.I. (2001). Application of a stress and coping model to caregiving in multiple sclerosis. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 6, 13-27.
43. Pariante, C.M., Carpiniello, B., Orru, G., Sitzia, R., Piras, A., Farci, A.M., ...Miller, A.H. (1997). Chronic caregiv- ing stress alters peripheral blood immune parameter: The role of age and severity of stress. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 66, 199-207.
44. Parveen, S., & Morrison, V. (2009). Predictors of familism: A pilot study. Journal of Health Psychology, 14, 1135-1143.
45. Parveen, S., & Morrison, V. (2012). Predicting caregiver gains: A longitudinal study. British Journal of Health Psychology (in press).
46. Parveen, S., Morrison, V., & Robinson, C.A. (2011). Ethnic variations in the caregiver role: A qualitative study. Journal of Health Psychology, 16, 862-872.
47. Pinquart, M., & Sorensen, S. (2006). Gender differences in caregiver stressors, social resources, and health: An updated meta analysis. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 61B, 33-45.
48. Rajaram, S.S., & Rashidi, A. (1998). Minority women and breast cancer screening: The role of cultural explanatory models. Preventive Medicine, 27, 757-764.
49. Sabogal, F., Marin, G., Otero-Sabogal, R., Marin, B.V., & Perez-Stable, E.J. (1987). Hispanic familism and acculturation: What changes and what doesn't? Hispanic Journal of Behavioural Sciences, 9, 397-412.
50. Saranson, I.G., Levine, H.M., Basham, R.B., & Saranson, B.R. (1983). Assessing social support: The Social Support Questionnaire. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44, 127-139.
51. The Stroke Association (2008). Stroke and South-Asian people. Fact sheet 32.
52. Youn, G., Knight, B.G., Jeong, H., & Benton, D. (1999). Differences in familism values and caregiving outcomes among Korean, Korean American, and White American dementia caregivers. Psychology and Aging, 14, 355-364.
53. Zhan, H.J. (2006). Joy and sorrow: Explaining Chinese caregivers' reward and stress. Journal of Aging Studies, 20, 27-38.
54. Zigmond, A.S., & Snaith, R.P. (1983). The hospital anxiety and depression scale. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 63, 361-370.