TY - JOUR
T1 - Caregiver Burden and Personal Authority
T2 - Differentiation and Connection in Caring for an Elderly Parent
AU - Rabin, Claire
AU - Bressler, Yona
AU - Prager, Edward
N1 - Funding Information:
Claire Rabin, D.S.W., Yona Bressler, M.S.W., and Edward Prager, Ph.D., are all at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel 69978. This research was carried out with the support of a grant from Tel Aviv University Bob Shapell School of Social Work. Reprints may be requested from the first author.
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - Personal authority in the family system (PAFS) is an intergenerational construct linking personal development and family interaction. Applied here to the notion of caregiver burden, PAFS was hypothesized to predict the degree of stress and strain experienced by adult sons and daughters giving care to their elderly disabled parents. Family variables related to the caregiver’s marriage were also assumed to play a role. Caregivers completed the Personal Authority in the Family System Questionnaire (PAFS-Q) and a measure of Caregiving Burden. Subscales of the PAFS-Q included intergenerational individuation, intergenerational intimacy, spousal individuation, spousal intimacy and intergenerational intimidation. Pearson’s correlations showed that caregiving burden was significantly correlated to all intergenerational intimacy. Multiple regression analysis showed intergenerational individuation and intimidation to account for 21% of the variance in caregiver burden. Implications of these findings for theory and practice are discussed.
AB - Personal authority in the family system (PAFS) is an intergenerational construct linking personal development and family interaction. Applied here to the notion of caregiver burden, PAFS was hypothesized to predict the degree of stress and strain experienced by adult sons and daughters giving care to their elderly disabled parents. Family variables related to the caregiver’s marriage were also assumed to play a role. Caregivers completed the Personal Authority in the Family System Questionnaire (PAFS-Q) and a measure of Caregiving Burden. Subscales of the PAFS-Q included intergenerational individuation, intergenerational intimacy, spousal individuation, spousal intimacy and intergenerational intimidation. Pearson’s correlations showed that caregiving burden was significantly correlated to all intergenerational intimacy. Multiple regression analysis showed intergenerational individuation and intimidation to account for 21% of the variance in caregiver burden. Implications of these findings for theory and practice are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1080/01926189308250993
DO - 10.1080/01926189308250993
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AN - SCOPUS:0007207276
SN - 0192-6187
VL - 21
SP - 27
EP - 39
JO - The American Journal of Family Therapy
JF - The American Journal of Family Therapy
IS - 1
ER -