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KMID : 0389420100180020137
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Korean Journal of Stress Research
2010 Volume.18 No. 2 p.137 ~ p.143
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Geriatric Caregivers’ Commitment, Controllability, Received Social Supports, and Stress Responses
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Suh Kyung-Hyun
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Abstract
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This study aims to investigate how commitment, controllability, and perceived social supports are related to stress responses of professional caregivers. The participants were 213 caregivers who were employed at a geriatric hospital, whose ages ranged from 35 to 70. The psychological tests used in this research included the following: Bartone’s Hardiness Scale: Short-Form, Park’s Social Supports Scale, and Stress Response Inventory. Results indicated that geriatric caregivers perceived receiving little supports from co-workers and superiors. Commitment, controllability, and perceived social supports of caregivers were negatively related with stress responses. And, these three variables accounted 16.1% variance of stress responses. Stepwise regression analyses for sub-variables of stress responses revealed that commitment, emotional and informative supports from co-workers and superiors, and evaluative supports from families were determinative. It was discussed roles of the commitment and controllability as intrapersonal variables, and perceived social supports as a external variable in stress responses with previous studies.
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KEYWORD
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Geriatric caregiver, Commitment, Controllability, Social support, Stress responses
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