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Abstract(s)
The informal caregivers of dependent elders, plays a
crucial role in maintaining the elderly in the family and
community, but its work can be reflected negatively in
their physical and emotional health, especially anxiety and
depreSSion, loneliness, lack of free time, health effects and
deterioration of the family economy. Several factors may be
involved in its development, including stereotypes about
the elderly, loneliness and self-efficacy of caregivers. In
order to verify that the self-efficacy acts as a mediator of
caregiver burden induced by the stereotypes and solitude,
we drew up a cross-sectional and analytical study of 232
informal caregivers of dependent elderly in the district of
Braganc;a - Portugal. It was found that loneliness has two
indirect effects on burden, mediated through self-efficacy
for a break and to controi negative thoughts about the act
of caring. Stereotyping of biological decline has indirect
effects mediated by self-efficacy to respond to inappropriate
behavior of the person cared for and self-efficacy for
controlling negative thoughts about the act of caring (via
self-efficacy to respond to inappropriate behavior of the
person cared for), hence there is a need for intervention with
caregivers and the community as a whole.
C022.2
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Keywords
Autoeficácia Sobrecarga do cuidador
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Mata, Maria Augusta; Teresa Rodriguez, Maria (2012). Self-efficacy as a mediating variable of informal caregiver burden for dependent elderly. In IV ª Conferencia Internacional de Psicología Comunitária. Barcelona
Publisher
Facultad de Psicologia - Universidad de Barcelona