Recommendations for more servere intervention and nursing home placement will be lower when responding as the spouse than when responding as an adult child. Spouses will recommend less severe interventions. The hypothesis will be supported if there is a significant main effect for relationship, with the mean recommendation for a spouse being less severe than the mean recommendation for a parent. Older respondents will be less likely to recommend nursing home placement and more severe interventions than middle aged respondents. The hypothesis will be supported if there is a significant main effect for age, with the mean recommendation for older respondents being less severe than the mean recommendation for middle aged respondents.
Males recommend no action and nursing home placement more often than any other type of intervention.
The hypothesis will be supported if there is a significant main effect for gender, with men having a higher frequency of recommendations for either no action or nursing home placement. Hypotheses four and five will be tested using simple correlations. Participants with enmeshed family style will recommend less severe intervention. Enmeshed family style will be negatively correlated with severity of intervention. Participants with lower levels of differentiation of self will recommend less severe interventions.