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KMID : 0379220090290020683
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Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2009 Volume.29 No. 2 p.683 ~ p.699
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The Effect of Motivation and Social Support on Burden of Spouse Caregivers: Focused on Gender Differences
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Han Gyoung-Hae
Lee Seo-Youn
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Abstract
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Family caregiving to the elderly is one of the most important social issues in recent Korea. Among various kinds of family caregivers, spouse caregivers particularly constitute a special group, generally characterized by continuous intimate association with the care recipients at many levels and by special commitments and responsibilities associated with the marriage bond. And the number of spouse caregiver is expected to increase in the future. Moreover, since a conjugal relation is consisted of husband and wife, their caregiving experiences and caregiving burden may vary by gender. Thus, the present study was to examine the effect of caregiving experience, especially caregiving motivation and social support focusing on the gender differences. We analysed ?2001 Survey of Care-giving Status and welfare Needs of Older Persons in Korea?data by performing descriptive statistics, t-test and logistic regression. As a result, we found that the husband was likely to feel more burden when he started caregiving because of few alternatives. For wife caregivers, the less awareness of social support they had, the more possibility of economic burden they felt. With these results, we suggest the necessity of having gender-sensitive perspective in research and policy making for caregivers.
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KEYWORD
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Spouse Caregiver, Caregiving Burden, Social Support, Caregiving Motivation, Gender Differences
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