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KMID : 0614420110380010237
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Mental Health & Social Work
2011 Volume.38 No. 1 p.237 ~ p.259
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Depression in the Elderly Mothers of Adults with Intellectual Disability The Moderating Effect of Family Relationship
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Kim Go-Eun
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to examine the moderating effect of family relationship with spouse, non-disabled adult children and disabled children about the impact of caregiving burden on depression. A survey was conducted with 297 mothers living in Seoul, Kyonggi, and Incheon who caring adults with intellectual disability aged 18 and over, were selected purposively to survey for this study. The major results were as follows. Using the multiple regression model, we found that significant effect aging recognition, worry of life-long caregiving, relationship with spouse and non-disabled adult children. Also relationship with spouse moderated the effect of aging recognition on depression and relationship with
non-disabled adult children moderated the effect of aging recognition and worry of life-long caregiving on depression. The results of this study suggest that family relationship is important variable to reduce depression of the elderly mothers of
adults with intellectual disability. The findings of this study contribute to an increased understanding of depression among elderly mothers of adults with intellectual disability. The implications of social work intervention for elderly mothers of adults with intellectual disability for decreasing depression were suggested in several ways.
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KEYWORD
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adults with intellectual disability, elderly mothers, depression, family relationship
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