Everyday Support to Aging Parents: Links to Middle-Aged Children's Diurnal Cortisol and Daily Mood.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of the study

Middle-aged adults are often called upon to support aging parents. However, providing support to an aging parent with health problems and disability may be a stressful experience. This study asked whether giving everyday support to parents in the context of health problems and disability has implications for middle-aged children's diurnal cortisol and daily mood.

Design and methods

During four consecutive days, 148 middle-aged adults (mean age = 55) reported the support they gave to their parents and provided saliva 4 times a day (wake, 30 min post-wake, lunchtime, and bedtime). Multilevel models estimated within-person differences in positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA), cortisol awakening response and area under the curve with respect to groun

SUBMITTER: Bangerter LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6281324 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature