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The Costs and Rewards of Caregiving Among Aging Spouses and Adult Children *
Author(s) -
Raschick Michael,
IngersollDayton Berit
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
family relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1741-3729
pISSN - 0197-6664
DOI - 10.1111/j.0022-2445.2004.0008.x
Subject(s) - helpfulness , spouse , psychology , perspective (graphical) , respite care , caregiver burden , family caregivers , association (psychology) , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , gerontology , medicine , social psychology , nursing , disease , dementia , pathology , artificial intelligence , sociology , anthropology , computer science , psychotherapist
Using a social exchange perspective and data from a national sample of 978 spouse and child caregivers of older family members, this study assessed the association between caregiver relationship and gender and the costs and rewards of caregiving. We also evaluated whether relationship and gender moderate the effects of helpfulness on caregiver costs and rewards. Results supported the hypotheses that women, whether wives or daughters, experience more caregiving costs than do men, and that adult children experience more rewards than do spousal caregivers. In addition, care recipient helpfulness was associated with greater increases in rewards for spousal caregivers than for adult children caregivers.