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Showing 1 to 20 of 454 for “"Caregiving"”.
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Parental Caregiving Cognitive Control Complexity: A New Construct for Understanding Parental Caregiving Behavior and Caregiving Identity Commitment
… This exploratory study proposes Parental Caregiving Cognitive Control Complexity (PC4) as a new construct concerning parental cognitions. PC4 was assessed in both mothers and fathers among 29 couples (N = 58) with a preschool aged child using a semi-structured interview format. …
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Relations Among Adolescent Motherhood, Caregiving Experience, and Perceptual and Caregiving Responses to Infant Cries
… study was to investigate the perceptual and caregiving responses of adolescent mothers to different infant cry stimuli. Twenty-five primiparous adolescents and 39 nulliparous adolescents listened to segments of three different infant cry types that varied in the amount of high-pitched, …
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Emotional availability: foster caregiving experiences
… placement of an adolescent in a foster caregiving environment. An adolescent anticipates, desires, and needs a safe and enduring foster placement. The emotional impact affects the adolescent as well as the caregiver from the initial introduction to the foster home to emancipation from …
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Dementia caregiving: burden and breakdown
… an investigation of the phenomenon of dementia caregiving burden and breakdown in community caregiving situations. 109 carer subjects participated in the study, with 91 current carers - 17 via face-to-face interview and 74 via the internet, and 18 past carers - two via face-to-face interview and …
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Primary Caregiving Father's Perceptions of Leisure
… study was to evaluate the impact the primary caregiving role had on men's perceptions of leisure. The Assessment of Leisure and Recreation Involvement (Ragheb, 2002) was used to examine men's leisure. Twenty-five stay-at-home dad groups were solicited via e-mail; 81 men submitted usable …
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Personal Constructs in Dementia Caregiving: The Family Caregiving Experience of People Living with Dementia in Saudi Arabia
… observed globally, family (informal and in-home) caregiving of older adults with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia has become a critical issue in the Arab region, including Saudi Arabia. This doctoral research psychometrically and conceptually evaluates an Arabic version of the …
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Caregiving Baby Boomer men: An exploration of the impact of discrimination on psychological distress and caregiving roles
… of discrimination based on their current caregiving roles and their psychological distress. Aspects of caregiving roles assessed included hours a week providing care and assistance providing activities of daily living. Additionally, the study examined the use of respite and perceptions of …
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In their own words : women's caregiving experiences
1 PDF file (vi, 132 leaves ; 28 cm)
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Finding Meaning in the Dementia Caregiving Relationship
… with dementia describe a wide spectrum of caregiving experiences, ranging from very negative to very positive. Previous literature acknowledges these differing experiences, but how and why they differ has rarely been investigated. Dementia caregiving can be burdensome with many …
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Beliefs About Caregiving Services Among Helping Professionals
… beliefs helping professionals have about caregiving services. The survey provided to participants of this study examined beliefs concerning what services are most important for caregivers to have access to, as well as what are the most significant barriers caregivers may experience when …
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Spousal Caregivers: Caregiving in Their Own Words
… their stories to an audience that understood caregiving. Implications for communication of caregiver identity, social support, and uncertainty are discussed in terms of current knowledge. The importance of listening to caregiver narratives as a part of social support services is advocated. …
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Dependency in Caregiving Contexts : The Role of Personality
… the kind and amount of dependency expressed in caregiving contexts.
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Caregiving in later life: an attachment explanatory model
… attachment, dimensions of adult attachment, and caregiving in later life. The research was intended to fill a void in both the attachment and the gerontological caregiving literatures. Like the construct of attachment, John Bowlby conceptualized caregiving as an expression of a specific …
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Changes in Formal-Informal Caregiving in Elderly Stroke Survivors
… and longitudinal differences in the caregiving source among stroke survivors (n=477) over a six-year period. This study involves a secondary analysis of a longitudinal panel study focusing upon three waves of interview data from the HAS/AHEAD study spanning 1998 through 2002. …
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Caregiving and Carereceiving: An Investigation of Burdens and Satisfactions
… both the burdens and satisfactions of the caregiving relationship between the informal family caregiving network and the dependent, older person living in the same home.
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Faltering Care: Homeless Mothers’ Experiences of Caregiving in Dublin
This dissertation takes as its focus the caregiving efforts of a group of mothers in Dublin who were homeless, struggling with addiction, and separated from their children. It offers an ethnographic account of their attempts to reknit their relationships with their distant children by extending …
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Caregiving, Crisis and Coercion in the American Revolutionary War
This dissertation uses the health crisis of the American Revolutionary War to interrogate the coercive labour dynamics underpinning care work in early America. It examines the Continental Army’s efforts to utilise existing coercive labour regimes (including enslavement, indentured servitude and …
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Examination of Role Satisfaction and Mental Health of Caregiving Grandparents
Research has shown that the number of caregiving grandparents in America has steadily increased. If this trend continues there will be more of a need for society to recognize this population and the difficulties that they face due to the atypical structure of these households. Research has produced …
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