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Hollis-Sawyer, Lisa

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“…Caregiver agreeableness is associated with greater readiness to help, kindness, and trust, thus fostering relationships with care recipients ( 77 ), allowing them more freedom in functioning ( 23 ), reducing caregiver stress ( 78 ), and helping them maintain better mental health ( 28 , 29 ).…”

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“…Similarly, high levels of conscientiousness, associated with greater purposefulness and determination, meticulousness, reliability, and sense of duty, are conducive to maintaining better relationships with recipients of care ( 77 ), more positive perceptions of the care situation ( 74 , 77 ), fewer depressive symptoms, more pro-health behaviors ( 34 ), better cognitive functioning ( 33 ), and lower mortality ( 28 , 31 , 32 ).…”

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“…Caregiver openness to experience is linked to greater curiosity and cognitive flexibility. Evidence suggests that it is also associated with caregiving-related growth ( 77 ), higher levels of emotional, cognitive, and physical well-being ( 29 , 30 ), and lower mortality ( 31 , 32 ).…”

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The Moderating Effects of Personal Resources on Caregiver Burden in Carers of Alzheimer's Patients

2021

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Caring for persons with Alzheimer's disease can be an extremely difficult experience. To date, there has been a lack of research into the role of intermediary variables in the relationship between caregiver personality and psychosocial functioning. The growing numbers of dementia patients worldwide mean that more people are involved in their care, making research into this area a pressing concern. Both a caregiver's personality and personal resources play a key role in their capacity to cope with stressful situations. In order to determine how personal resources moderate the relationship between personality and burden of care, a total of 100 caregivers of Alzheimer's patients (78 women and 22 men) were asked to complete a set of questionnaires to assess personality, personal resources (sense of coherence, generalized self-efficacy, and perceived social support), as well as their levels of stress, depression, and commitment to care. Structural equation modeling and latent growth analysis suggest that personal resources explain the mechanisms underlying burden of care and moderate its relationship with personality. Our findings indicate that personal resources are a critical predictor of burden of care. Therefore, caregivers must be provided with appropriate support, taking into account their resources and personality profiles.

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The Moderating Effects of Personal Resources on Caregiver Burden in Carers of Alzheimer's Patients

2021

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“…A search of the relevant literature including caregivers of older adults, cancer patients, and disabled adult children found only 18 publications based on 15 different samples. Only three of these samples assessed all of the five-factor dimensions (Hollis-Sawyer, 2003; Hooker, Frazier, & Monahan, 1994; Renzetti et al, 2001). This stands in stark contrast to hundreds of publications examining other correlates of caregiver health (Pinquart & Sörensen, 2007).…”

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Five-factor personality traits and subjective health among caregivers: The role of caregiver strain and self-efficacy.

Löckenhoff

Duberstein

Friedman

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Psychology and Aging

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This study examined the association among caregivers’ five-factor personality traits and subjective health with particular emphasis on the role of two theoretically implicated mediators: multi-domain self-efficacy and caregiver strain. The sample comprised 536 informal caregivers (mean age = 62.9 years, SD = 19.9, 72% female, 98% White) of community-dwelling older adults with multiple functional impairments. Both physical health and mental health were negatively associated with neuroticism and positively associated with extraversion and conscientiousness. Agreeableness and openness were associated with better subjective mental health and physical health, respectively. Multiple mediation analyses indicated that self-efficacy mediated all observed associations between personality and subjective health, whereas caregiver strain selectively mediated the associations of neuroticism and agreeableness with mental health.

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“…Caregivers high in extraversion display less depression (Kim et al, 2005), lower burden and strain (Gallant & Connell, 2003), more adaptive coping strategies (Hooker et al, 1994), and better mental and physical health (Hooker et al, 1992). Similarly, caregivers high in conscientiousness report greater adaptive coping strategies (Hooker et al, 1994), more benefit-finding in the caregiving experience (Hollis-Sawyer, 2003), and lower sensitivity to caregiver-related stressors (Koerner & Kenyon, 2007). And finally, caregivers with high agreeableness report less maladaptive coping strategies (Hooker et al, 1994) and more benefit-finding (Koerner, Kenyon, & Shirai, 2009), whereas those higher on openness to experience tend to experience positive perceptions of the caregiving experience (Hollis-Sawyer, 2003).…”

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Using personality traits to construct linear growth models of mental health in family members of individuals with severe brain injury.

Trujillo¹,

Perrin²,

Doser³

et al. 2016

Rehabilitation Psychology

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Caregivers' personality traits were strongly associated over time with mental HRQoL, anxiety, and depression, with neuroticism being especially important for trajectories of anxiety and depression. These results suggest that personality assessments for caregivers of individuals with severe brain injury could help identify those most at risk for poor mental health over the course of rehabilitation. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Cited by 13 publications

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The Moderating Effects of Personal Resources on Caregiver Burden in Carers of Alzheimer's Patients

The Moderating Effects of Personal Resources on Caregiver Burden in Carers of Alzheimer's Patients

Five-factor personality traits and subjective health among caregivers: The role of caregiver strain and self-efficacy.

Using personality traits to construct linear growth models of mental health in family members of individuals with severe brain injury.

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