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The Gerontologist, Vol 38, Issue 4 463-470, Copyright © 1998 by The Gerontological Society of America


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The role of religion/spirituality in coping with caregiving for disabled elders

BH Chang, AE Noonan and SL Tennstedt
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial VA Hospital, Bedford, MA 01730, USA. [email protected]

This study examined how religious/spiritual coping was related to specific conditions of caregiving and psychological distress among 127 informal caregivers to community-residing disabled elders. Support was found for the hypothesis that religious/spiritual coping influences caregiver distress indirectly through the quality of the relationship between caregiver and care recipient. Caregivers who used religious or spiritual beliefs to cope with caregiving had a better relationship with care recipients, which was associated with lower levels of depression and role submersion.


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