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Predictive Ability of Self Compassion in Psychosocial Outcomes of Caregivers of Persons With Dementia

Caregivers of Individuals with Dementia (IWDs) often face increased rates of depression, anxiety, and burden because of their role as caregiver. Self-compassion, a construct centered around self-kindness and understanding has not been well studied within the caregiving population. The present study...

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Autores principales: Grant, Claire, Judge, Katherine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8682384/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.3519
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description Caregivers of Individuals with Dementia (IWDs) often face increased rates of depression, anxiety, and burden because of their role as caregiver. Self-compassion, a construct centered around self-kindness and understanding has not been well studied within the caregiving population. The present study was aimed at understanding the relationship between self-compassion and the psychosocial outcomes of burden, depression, and anxiety. Strong relationships between self-compassion and these outcomes have been established in other populations, but these relationships have not been studied with the dementia caregiving population. A diverse sample of dementia caregivers providing over 5 hours of care per week were recruited through CloudResearch and MTurk (N = 99). Participants were aged 18 to 69 years (M = 38.61) and 66.7% were female. 67.7% were White, 13.1% were Black, and 8.1% were Asian. 73% were children/in law or grandchildren/in law of the individual with dementia and 12% were a close friend of the individuals with dementia. The individuals with dementia had an average age of 73.88 years. Results of multiple regression models showed that self-compassion was a significant predictor of depression (β = -.25, p = .025), anxiety (β = -.36, p = .001), and burden (β = -.25, p = .023) even while controlling for other constructs including self-esteem, types of coping, and IWD impairment level. Self-compassion will be discussed as a novel contribution to the caregiving literature in furthering our understanding of well-being predictors and how to target self-compassion as a modifiable factor for offsetting the negative impacts of caregiving.
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spelling pubmed-86823842021-12-20 Predictive Ability of Self Compassion in Psychosocial Outcomes of Caregivers of Persons With Dementia Grant, Claire Judge, Katherine Innov Aging Abstracts Caregivers of Individuals with Dementia (IWDs) often face increased rates of depression, anxiety, and burden because of their role as caregiver. Self-compassion, a construct centered around self-kindness and understanding has not been well studied within the caregiving population. The present study was aimed at understanding the relationship between self-compassion and the psychosocial outcomes of burden, depression, and anxiety. Strong relationships between self-compassion and these outcomes have been established in other populations, but these relationships have not been studied with the dementia caregiving population. A diverse sample of dementia caregivers providing over 5 hours of care per week were recruited through CloudResearch and MTurk (N = 99). Participants were aged 18 to 69 years (M = 38.61) and 66.7% were female. 67.7% were White, 13.1% were Black, and 8.1% were Asian. 73% were children/in law or grandchildren/in law of the individual with dementia and 12% were a close friend of the individuals with dementia. The individuals with dementia had an average age of 73.88 years. Results of multiple regression models showed that self-compassion was a significant predictor of depression (β = -.25, p = .025), anxiety (β = -.36, p = .001), and burden (β = -.25, p = .023) even while controlling for other constructs including self-esteem, types of coping, and IWD impairment level. Self-compassion will be discussed as a novel contribution to the caregiving literature in furthering our understanding of well-being predictors and how to target self-compassion as a modifiable factor for offsetting the negative impacts of caregiving. Oxford University Press 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8682384/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.3519 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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