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The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 57:P205-P211 (2002)
© 2002 The Gerontological Society of America


RESEARCH ARTICLE

Coping and Depression in Alzheimer's Caregivers

Longitudinal Evidence of Stability

David V. Powersa, Dolores Gallagher-Thompsonb,c and Helena C. Kraemerc

a Department of Psychology, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore
b VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Stanford University School of Medicine
c Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine

David V. Powers, Department of Psychology, Loyola College in Maryland, 4501 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210 E-mail: dpowers{at}loyola.edu.

Decision Editor: Toni C. Antonucci, PhD

The present study examined the longitudinal relationship between depressive symptoms and coping strategies in older adult primary caregivers of noninstitutionalized Alzheimer's patients. Coping and depression were measured in 51 healthy, nondepressed caregivers (37 women, 14 men) at 4 times of testing approximately 6 months apart. The caregivers' coping strategies and depressive symptoms were found to be largely stable over all times of testing—with a recently developed method for evaluating construct stability—despite significant decline in the patients' cognitive functioning over the same interval. Avoidance coping was also found to be positively associated with depressive symptoms. Results suggest that a strong stable component is present in caregiver coping style and that caregiver intervention researchers may want to examine the extent to which commonly used outcome measures are assessing stable caregiver traits rather than state-dependent distress.




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