Emotion regulation in people living with dementia and their spouses: the role of neuropsychiatric symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

People with dementia (PwD) and their care partners (CP) may have difficulties in emotion regulation, and individual differences in emotion regulation may be related to PwD's neuropsychiatric symptoms. This study explores whether there is self-awareness of PwD's difficulties in emotion regulation and whether CP's emotion regulation relates to the PwD's neuropsychiatric symptoms, potentially revealing bias or interpersonal effects.

Method

We used data from the Wish Outcome Obstacle Plan Study with a sample of 45 PwD and their spousal CP (n = 90 individuals). Multivariate linear regression models were used to investigate the associations between the CP-reported neuropsychiatric symptoms in PwD and self-reports of emotion regulation in both dyad members, net of

SUBMITTER: Lou Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11560677 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature