Informal caregiving and personality: Results of a population-based longitudinal study in Germany.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim of this study was to identify whether informal caregiving time is associated with personality factors longitudinally.

Methods

Longitudinal data were gathered from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), a large nationally representative, longitudinal study of German households beginning in 1984. Focusing on the association between informal caregiving and personality factors, data were used from the years 2005, 2009 and 2013. The GSOEP Big Five Inventory was used to assess personality factors. Informal caregiving hours were used as explanatory variable. The explanatory variable informal caregiving hours was categorized into 0 hours (reference), 1 hours, 2 hours, 3 hours, 4 hours, and 5 hours and more. Age, marital status, educational level, employment stat

SUBMITTER: Hajek A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6126863 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature