Exploratory factor analysis of the caregiver grief inventory in a large UK sample of dementia carers
| Autor: | Colin Gorman, Mark Shevlin, Jane Gilsenan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Coping (psychology)
Psychometrics media_common.quotation_subject Anticipatory grief 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Dementia media_common 030214 geriatrics Reproducibility of Results medicine.disease United Kingdom humanities Exploratory factor analysis Psychiatry and Mental health Caregivers Grief Geriatrics and Gerontology Pshychiatric Mental Health Factor Analysis Statistical Psychology Gerontology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Aging & Mental Health. 26:320-327 |
| ISSN: | 1364-6915 1360-7863 |
| Popis: | Anticipatory grief (AG) is the process of experiencing loss prior to the death of a significant person. Coping with this multifaceted experience in the context of dementia caregiving is a relatively novel, yet significant area in caregiving literature. The Marwit-Meuser Caregiver Grief Inventory (MM-CGI) and its abbreviated MM-CGI-Short-Form (MM-CGI-SF) is the most widely used scale measuring AG. However, limited research has employed robust analytical strategies to assess its dimensional structure. This study employed contemporary factor analytical techniques to assess the dimensional structure of the MM-CGI/SF.Caregivers of persons with dementia (The best fitting model was the MM-CGI-SF three factor model (The MM-CGI-SF three factor model demonstrated adequate fit and utility, however, the |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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