Personal mastery attenuates the effect of caregiving stress on psychiatric morbidity

Mausbach, Brent T; Patterson, Thomas L; von Känel, Roland; Mills, Paul J; Ancoli-Israel, Sonia; Dimsdale, Joel E; Grant, Igor (2006). Personal mastery attenuates the effect of caregiving stress on psychiatric morbidity. Journal of nervous and mental disease, 194(2), pp. 132-4. Baltimore, Md.: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 10.1097/01.nmd.0000198198.21928.e7

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This study examined the protective effects of personal mastery on the relations between both objective and subjective stress and psychiatric morbidity in 79 spousal Alzheimer caregivers. Results indicated that with low mastery, the relations between patient problem behaviors and caregiver psychiatric symptoms was significant (t[71] = 2.03; p = 0.046). However, with high mastery, no significant association was found (t[71] = -0.76; p = 0.452). Similarly, the relations between role overload and psychiatric morbidity was significant when mastery was low (t[71] = 2.22; p = 0.029), but not high (t[71] = -1.49; p = 0.140). These results suggest that caregivers with a greater sense of personal mastery may be protected from the negative effects of caregiver stress.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Head Organs and Neurology (DKNS) > Clinic of Neurology > Centre of Competence for Psychosomatic Medicine
UniBE Contributor:	von Känel, Roland
ISSN:	0022-3018
ISBN:	16477193
Publisher:	Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Language:	English
Submitter:	Factscience Import
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2013 14:50
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:15
Publisher DOI:	10.1097/01.nmd.0000198198.21928.e7
PubMed ID:	16477193
Web of Science ID:	000235488700011
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/21031 (FactScience: 4902)