Heart rate reactivity and depression in African-American and white dementia caregivers: Reporting bias or positive coping?
| Autor: | B. G. Knight, T. J. Mccallum |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
| Předmět: |
Coping (psychology)
medicine.medical_specialty Stressor Positive coping medicine.disease Mental health Psychiatry and Mental health Reporting bias mental disorders Heart rate medicine Dementia Anxiety Geriatrics and Gerontology Pshychiatric Mental Health medicine.symptom Psychiatry Psychology Gerontology psychological phenomena and processes Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Aging & Mental Health. 2:212-221 |
| ISSN: | 1364-6915 1360-7863 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13607869856696 |
| Popis: | Caring for a demented older relative is a chronic stressor with mental health implications, but with unclear physical health implications. Two potential explanations of positive responses to stress are compared: the faking good hypothesis and the coping style of positive reappraisal of the stressor. In this investigation, 110 white caregivers and 44 African-American caregivers are compared on cardiovascular reactivity to induced stress, self-reported depression and anxiety and on two measures of positive appraisal of stress: the motivational distortion scale from the 16PF and a measure of positive reappraisal. African-American caregivers used positive reappraisal more than whites. Both whites and African-Americans showed significant heart rate reactivity in response to mental arithmetic and to relating a caregiving story. No evidence was found for influence of motivational distortion on heart rate reactivity. Positive reappraisal and self-reported depression were positively related to heart rate reactivit... |
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