Relationship among depressive symptoms,filial piety and mutuality in adult-child caregivers of disabled elderly
10.3969/j.issn.1000-6729.2024.08.006
- VernacularTitle:失能老人子代照料者的抑郁症状与孝道观念和相依关系的关系
- Author:
Jinming SUN
1
;
Fenghua WANG
;
Guolu ZHANG
;
Manhua SUN
;
Zeyu YAN
;
Xue DING
Author Information
1. 天津理工大学社会发展学院,天津 300384
- Keywords:
disabled elderly;
adult-child caregivers;
depressive symptoms;
mutuality;
dual filial piety;
recip-rocal filial piety;
authoritarian filial piety
- From:
Chinese Mental Health Journal
2024;38(8):674-679
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To explore the relationship between depressive symptoms and filial piety in adult-child caregivers of disabled elderly,and the mediating effect of mutuality on the relationship.Methods:Totally 383 adult-child caregivers were assessed with the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale(CES-D),Dual Filial Piety Scale(DFPS)and Mutuality Scale(MS).The SPSS macro program Process was used to test the mediation model.Results:The CES-D scores were negatively correlated with the reciprocal filial piety scores and the MS scores(r=-0.49,-0.48,Ps<0.01)and positively correlated with the authoritarian filial piety scores(r=0.37,P<0.01).The MS scores were positively correlated with the reciprocal filial piety scores(r=0.76,P<0.01),and negatively correlated with the authoritarian filial piety scores(r=-0.84,P<0.01).Reciprocal filial piety scores were negatively associated with CES-D scores(β=-0.67).In addition,MS scores partly mediated the relationship between reciprocal filial piety scores and CES-D scores,the value of mediating effect was 22.89%.Conclusion:The depressive symptoms are correlated with filial piety and mutuality among adult-child caregivers of disabled eld-erly.