Attachment Style and Emotion Regulation in Dementia Patients and their Relation to Caregiver Burden
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12440540 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carol Magai (Long Island University, corresponding author), Carl I Cohen (0000-0003-1989-6954, State University of New York) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 53B |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | P147-P154 |
| Publication date | 1998-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journals of Gerontology Series B (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1079-5014 • E-ISSN: 1758-5368 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/geronb/53b.3.p147 |
| PMID | 9602830 |
| OpenAlex | W2168088344 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 4 |
One hundred and sixty-eight patients with mid- to late-stage dementia and their caregivers participated in a study of the relation between patient emotional characteristics, dementia symptomatology, and caregiver burden. Measures included premorbid attachment style, premorbid emotion regulation style, and behavioral symptoms of dementia. The attachment patterns (secure, avoidant, ambivalent) of these elderly patients resembled those obtained in samples of younger individuals in terms of emotion regulation characteristics; however, the distribution of attachment styles was significantly different, with a lower proportion of ambivalently attached individuals in the present sample. In terms of the behavioral symptoms of dementia, ambivalent patients had more depression and anxiety than secure and avoidant patients; the latter patients experienced more activity disturbance than ambivalently attached individuals and were higher on paranoid symptomatology than securely attached persons. Caregivers of securely attached individuals experienced less total burden than did caregivers of both insecure groups. In regression analysis, attachment style accounted for the largest proportion of unique variance in the prediction of caregiver burden (8%); only 1 of 7 patient symptoms contributed a significant independent effect, namely depressed affect, which accounted for 4% of the variance
Affect (linguistics · Ambivalence · Anxiety · Attachment theory · Caregiver burden · Dementia · Depression (economics · Disease · Psychiatry · Style (visual arts · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Family Caregiving in Mental Illness · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Psychology · Clinical Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |