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      Resiliencia en cuidadores familiares de personas mayores dependientes Translated title: Resilience in caregivers of elderly dependent relatives

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      Anales de Psicología
      Universidad de Murcia
      Cuidador, resiliencia, dependencia, adaptación, Caregiver, resilience, dependence, adaptation

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          El presente trabajo analiza la distribución de los niveles de resiliencia en cuidadores no profesionales (familiares) de personas mayores dependientes, y explora las características que poseen los cuidadores altamente resilientes. Para ello se administró la escala CD-RISC a una muestra de 111 cuidadores. En función de las puntuaciones obtenidas, se distinguieron dos grupos: alta vs. moderada o baja resiliencia. Se analizaron las diferencias entre ambos grupos en las diversas variables que afectan al estrés del cuidador. Aunque hubo diferencias en el estado cognitivo del receptor de cuidado, las mayores diferencias se obtuvieron en las denominadas variables mediadoras, observando en los cuidadores con alta resiliencia mayores puntuaciones en: satisfacción con el apoyo social recibido, autoeficacia para controlar los pensamientos negativos, autoestima, autocuidado y extraversión; y siendo estas diferencias estadísticamente significativas. Asimismo los cuidadores altamente resilientes tendieron a manifestar una menor preocupación por los problemas del mayor, y presentaron menores niveles de sintomatología depresiva y ansiosa. Este estudio pone de manifiesto la importancia de la resiliencia como factor de protección en el ámbito del estrés crónico, incorporando aspectos positivos de la adaptación a los modelos teóricos de cuidado, los cuales tradicionalmente se han venido centrando en el desarrollo de sintomatología.

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          The present study analyzes resilience levels in caregivers of elderly dependent relatives and explores the characteristics of highly resilient caregivers. With this aim, the CD-RISC was selected to assess a sample of 111 caregivers. According with CD-RISC scores, two groups of subject were established: high vs. moderate or low resilience. Differences between both groups were examined. Although there were differences in the cognitive status of care recipient, the more relevant differences were found in mediator variables. So, highly resilient group reported greater levels of: satisfaction with social support, self-efficacy to control negative thoughts, extraversion and self-care; being these differences statistically significant. Moreover resilient caregivers tended to show less reaction to patient be-havioral disturbance, and they had lower levels of depression and anxiety symptoms. These findings emphasize the relevance of resilience as a protective factor in chronic stress situations. This involves the incorporation of positive aspects to theoretical models of caregiving, which traditionally have focused on the development of symptoms.

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          Loss, Trauma, and Human Resilience: Have We Underestimated the Human Capacity to Thrive After Extremely Aversive Events?

          Many people are exposed to loss or potentially traumatic events at some point in their lives, and yet they continue to have positive emotional experiences and show only minor and transient disruptions in their ability to function. Unfortunately, because much of psychology's knowledge about how adults cope with loss or trauma has come from individuals who sought treatment or exhibited great distress, loss and trauma theorists have often viewed this type of resilience as either rare or pathological. The author challenges these assumptions by reviewing evidence that resilience represents a distinct trajectory from the process of recovery, that resilience in the face of loss or potential trauma is more common than is often believed, and that there are multiple and sometimes unexpected pathways to resilience. ((c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)
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            To identify positive aspects of caregiving and examine how they are associated with caregiver outcomes. This study used a national sample of caregivers derived from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (part 2). Two hundred and eighty-nine caregivers caring for seniors living in the community were questioned about their experience of caregiving. Caregivers were asked whether they could identify any positive aspects related to their role, the type of positive aspects and to rate their feelings about caring. Using a conceptual model developed by Noonan and Tennstedt (1997), a staged stepwise multiple regression approach was used factoring the background/contextual variables, stressor variables (3 MS score, ADL limitations), mediator variables (positive aspects of caregiving, number of services used) and outcome variables (depression, burden and self-assessed health measures) into the model. Two hundred and eleven caregivers (73%) could identify at least one specific positive aspect of caregiving. An additional 20 (6.9%) could identify more than one positive aspect. Positive feelings about caring were associated with lower CES-D scores ( p<0.001), lower burden scores ( p<0.001) and better self assessed health ( p<0.001). Clinicians should inquire about the positive aspects of caregiving if they are to fully comprehend the caregiver experience and identify risk factors for negative caregiver outcomes. Copyright 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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              Caregivers of disabled older people were studied in terms of their appraisal of the caregiving process. A conceptual approach based on stress theory suggested that such appraisal was broader than the traditional term, "caregiving burden." An item pool was constructed using traditional and new items to represent dimensions of subjective caregiving burden, caregiving satisfaction, caregiving impact, caregiving mastery, and traditional caregiving ideology. Component analysis of responses of 632 caregivers in a respite research project yielded factors that corresponded with those hypothesized; the content of similar factored responses from 239 caregivers in another study was quite similar. A series of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses resulted in acceptance of the subjective burden, caregiving satisfaction, and caregiving impact factors. Used as composite item scores, evidence of their psychometric quality is presented.
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                Anales de Psicología
                Anal. Psicol.
                Universidad de Murcia (Murcia, Murcia, Spain )
                0212-9728
                1695-2294
                January 2015
                : 31
                : 1
                : 19-27
                Affiliations
                [01] Madrid orgnameUniversidad Complutense de Madrid orgdiv1Facultad de Psicología Facultad de Psicología orgdiv2Departamento de Psicología Clínica
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                S0212-97282015000100003
                10.6018/analesps.31.1.158241
                a02f94c9-dfd3-4e43-915b-b2923a8fd837

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

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                : 14 February 2014
                : 17 September 2012
                : 02 December 2013
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