Willingness to express emotions to caregiving spouses.
Year: 2009
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This study examined the association between care-recipients' willingness to express emotions to spousal caregivers and caregiver's well-being and support behaviors. Using self-report measures in the context of a larger study, 262 care-recipients with osteoarthritis reported on their willingness to express emotions to caregivers, and caregivers reported on their stress and insensitive responding to care-recipients. Results revealed that care-recipients' willingness to express happiness was associated with less insensitive caregiver responding, and willingness to express interpersonal emotions (e.g., compassion, guilt) was associated with less caregiving stress. There were also gender differences, such that caregiving wives, in particular, benefited from their husband's willingness to express vulnerable (e.g., anxiety, sadness) and interpersonal emotions.
Source: Emotion
DOI: 10.1037/a0013732
Institutions: University of Pittsburgh, Yale University
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Awards: Caregiver Intervention for Caregivers of SCI Patients, Daily Individual and Marital Processes in Osteoarthritis, G1718989170, G1832476190, G273173344, G2971050348, Pittsburgh Mind-Body Center-II, G5387929582, NIMHD-Research Center of Excellence at the University of Maryland, G6146639103, IRC for the Study of Late-Life Mood Disorders, The Pittsburgh Mind-Body Center - II, Intervention to Facilitate Family Caregiver Adaption, UNDERSTANDING SHARED PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL PATHWAYS, Physiological Indicators of Perceived Suffering in a Loved One' Spousal Reactions, Treating Family Caregivers To Late-Life Depression Patients, Quality of Informal Care and Caregiving Transitions, G9000325223
OpenAlex ID: W2021353264