Look on the bright side: the relation between family values, positive aspects of care and caregiver burden.

ABSTRACT: Family-centered values are important for caregiving. However, findings on their association with burden are inconsistent. We aim to analyze whether positive aspects of caregiving are mediating the effect of familism on burden among informal caregivers of older adults in Germany. Participants (n = 277) were drawn from the Attitudes Toward Informal Caregivers (ATTIC) project and include informal long-term caregivers of older relatives (aged ≥ 60) quota-sampled from Germany (December 2023). Mediation analyses (linear OLS regression) with robust standard errors were conducted with the classic and the counterfactual causal mediation framework. The classic approach indicated a significant positive direct effect of familism on burden, a significant negative direct effect of PAC on burden and a si

SUBMITTER: Zwar L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11364734 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature