Motives for Parental Caregiving and Relationship Quality

The Influence of Culture on the Experiences of Korean, Korean American, and Caucasian-American Family Caregivers of Frail Older Adults: A Literature Review

“…affection, closeness, and enjoyment of the relationship). Two thirds of daughter caregivers reported low obligatory motives but high discretionary motives (Walker et al, 1990). Lewis et al (1995) described 5 White caregivers' motivations of parent care with qualitative methods.…”

“…Primary caregiver: Of the seven studies, the major primary caregivers were daughters (Cicirelli, 1993;Cox, 1995;Lewis et al, 1995;Walker, Pratt, Shin, & Jones, 1990;Wykle & Segal, 1991) and spouses (Fredman, Daly, & Lazur, 1995;Valle, Yamada, & Barrio, 2004).…”

“…Caregiving motivation: Walker et al (1990) explored motives for parent care in terms of obligatory and discretionary motives (e.g. affection, closeness, and enjoyment of the relationship).…”

Stress and coping model for family caregivers of older adults

“…Stroller (1983) also found adult child caregivers that had a positive relationship with the care receiver parent prior to caregiving found the caregiving situation to be less stressful than adult child caregivers that did not have a positive relationship with the care receiver parent. Research indicated that caregiver satisfaction may be correlated with the caregiver-care receiver relationship prior to caregiving (Walker et al, 1990). However, prior quality of the relationship between the caregiver and care receiver was not assessed in this study.…”

“…This also may have caused other siblings not to take as much of an active role in caregiving as they may feel they were not as needed (Albert, 1990). Other adult children have reported stepping into the caregiver role out of a sense of duty felt toward a parent (Walker, Pratt, Shin, & Jones, 1990). Burr and Mutchler (1999) found in a study of African American adult children caregivers (n=353) and Caucasian adult children caregivers (n=1,180) that African American adult children had stronger beliefs of filial responsibility.…”