Spouses, Adult Children, and Children-in-Law as Caregivers of Older Adults: A Meta-Analytic Comparison
By M. Pinquart, S. Sörensen. Psychology and Aging, 2011
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The present meta-analysis integrates the results from 168 empirical studies on differences between caregiving spouses, adult children, and children-in-law. Spouses differ from children and children-in-law significantly with regard to sociodemographic variables; also, they provide more support but report fewer care recipient behavior problems. Spouse caregivers report more depression symptoms, greater financial and physical burden, and lower levels of psychological well-being. Higher levels of psychological distress among spouses are explained mostly—but not completely—by higher levels of care provision. Few differences emerge between children and children-in-law, but children-in-law perceive the relationship with the care recipient as less positive and they report fewer uplifts of caregiving.
Subfields: Psychiatry and Mental health, Sociology and Political Science
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- The Transition to Parent Care: Costs, Commitments, and Caregiver Selection Among Children (2014, background): “…to intensity of caregiving; types of activities; number of children involved; and important contextual features, such as the presence or absence of support by partners and professional services (see Brandt et al., 2009; Henretta et al., 2011; Pinquart & Sörensen, 2011; Wolff & Kasper, 2006).”
- The Ambiguous Link between Marriage and Health: A Dynamic Reanalysis of Loss and Gain Effects (2017, background): “Given the importance of the spouse for instrumental and emotional support during old age (Pinquart and Sorensen 2011), we do not want to generalize our negative findings to that age category.”