THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG STRESSORS, STRESS, AFFILIATED-INDIVIDUATION, BURDEN, AND WELL-BEING IN CAREGIVERS OF ADULTS WITH DEMENTIA: A TEST OF THE THEORY AND PARADIGM FOR NURSING, MODELING AND ROLE-MODELING.
Contributors: University of Texas at Austin.
Published: 1993
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of the study was to explore the relations among stressors, stress, affiliated-individuation, burden, and well-being in a sample of caregivers of adults with dementia. In addition, the moderating effect of affiliated-individuation between stress and well-being was explored.

Modeling and Role-Modeling provided the theoretical framework for this study (Erickson, Tomlin, & Swain, 1983). One hundred and seven subjects participated in the study. Each subject completed the following instruments: the Memory and Behavior Problem Checklist, the Basic Needs Satisfaction Inventory, the Burden Interview, and the Goldberg Health Questionnaire.

Data were analyzed using multiple correlation and multiple regression. Results indicated significant associations among all the study variables. Stressors, affiliation, individuation, and burden accounted for 52% of the variance in well-being. When the variable stressors was removed from the hierarchical regression equation, stress became a significant predictor of well-being. In an examination of the relations among stressors, stress, and burden, stress acted as a mediator variable to lessen the effect of stressors on burden. Affiliated-individuation did not exert a moderating effect between stress and well-being. However, upon a new consideration, affiliated-individuation was found to function as a mediator variable to lessen the effect of stress on caregiver well-being.

These findings support the concepts and linkages proposed by the theoretical framework. This research served to validate, albeit tentatively, one aspect of the theory and paradigm for nursing, Modeling and Role-Modeling.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-05, Section: B, page: 2436.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 1993.

School code: 0227.