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© 1990 Oxford University Press

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Emotional Adaptation over Time in Care-givers for Chronically Elderly People

CHRISTOPHER S. GRAY, PETER V. RABINS1, MELINDA D. FITTING2, JAMES EASTHAM3 and JAMES ZABORA4

1Meyer 279,Johns Hopkins Hospital 600 N. Wolfe St.,Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
2Department of Psychiatry Baltimore, MD 21205
3Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD 21205
4Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore County Baltimore, MD 21228

Thirty-two care-givers of persons with Alzheimer's disease and 30 care-givers of persons with recurrent metastatic cancer were interviewed three times over a 2-year period. Both groups showed a decline in anxiety and negative mood while dementia care-givers also experienced a decline in anger. A multiple regression analysis revealed that care-giver neuroticism, self-reported low strength of religious beliefs and anger explained 54% of the variance of the negative affect balance score at 2-year follow-up while higher number of social contacts at index interview and strong self-reported religious faith explained 43% of the variance of positive affect balance.

Received August 7, 1989;
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