Personality and coping among caregivers of spouses with dementia

Karen Hooker; Leslie D. Frazier; Deborah J. Monahan

doi:10.1093/geront/34.3.386

Personality and coping among caregivers of spouses with dementia

Karen Hooker, Leslie D. Frazier, Deborah J. Monahan

School of Social Work

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Personality factors and coping strategies were examined among a sample of spouse caregivers. Fifty spouse caregivers of patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia completed the NEO-FFI, a personality inventory designed to measure traits identifiedin the five-factor trait model, and a revised measure of the Ways of Coping Checklist. Results from a series of multivariate regressions showed that personality traits explained 60% of thevariance in emotion-focused coping, 30% of variance in problem-focused coping, and 15% of variance associated with social support coping. Discussion focuses on the usefulness of including personality characteristics of the caregiver in formulating models of the caregiving coping process.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	386-392
Number of pages	7
Journal	Gerontologist
Volume	34
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/34.3.386
State	Published - Jun 1994

Keywords

Alzheimer’s disease
Coping strategies
Five-factor trait model

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Gerontology
Geriatrics and Gerontology

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