Cultural Context of Caregiving: Differences in Depression between Puerto Rican and Non-Latina White Mothers of Adults with Mental Retardation

Autor/inn/en	Magana, Sandra; Seltzer, Marsha Mailick; Krauss, Marty Wyngaarden
Titel	Cultural Context of Caregiving: Differences in Depression between Puerto Rican and Non-Latina White Mothers of Adults with Mental Retardation
Quelle	In: Mental Retardation: A Journal of Practices, Policy and Perspectives, 42 (2004) 1, S.1-11 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-6765
Schlagwörter	Adults; Whites; Mothers; Physical Health; Family Problems; Cultural Context; Behavior Problems; Mental Retardation; Depression (Psychology); Puerto Ricans; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Predictor Variables + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? White; Weißer; Mother; Mutter; Gesundheitszustand; Familienkrise; Geistige Behinderung; Puerto Rican; Puerto-Ricaner; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Prädiktor
Abstract	Differences in depression between Puerto Rican and non-Latina White mothers providing care to their adult child with mental retardation were examined. The focus of this study is on how family problems may mediate the effect of the adult's behavior problems on the mother's level of depressive symptoms and how this process differs across the two groups of mothers. As hypothesized, family problems was a stronger predictor of depressive symptoms for Puerto Rican mothers than for non-Latina White mothers. In addition, Puerto Rican mothers were in poorer physical health, which further accounted for differences in depression between the two groups. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10