TY - JOUR
T1 - Health-related stress, affect, and depressive symptoms experienced by caregiving mothers of adults with a developmental disability
AU - Pruchno, Rachel A.
AU - Meeks, Suzanne
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2004/9
Y1 - 2004/9
N2 - The interrelationships among health-related stress, positive and negative affect, and depressive symptoms patterned in the dynamic model of affect (J. Reich, A. Zautra, & M. Davis, 2003) were examined using data from 932 women having an adult child with a developmental disability. Results indicate that women experience a moderate inverse correlation between positive and negative affect under conditions of low levels of health-related stress, whereas at high levels of stress, positive and negative affect become more strongly inversely correlated. Under high-stress conditions, both negative affect and positive affect have a stronger relationship to depressive symptoms than they do under low-stress conditions.
AB - The interrelationships among health-related stress, positive and negative affect, and depressive symptoms patterned in the dynamic model of affect (J. Reich, A. Zautra, & M. Davis, 2003) were examined using data from 932 women having an adult child with a developmental disability. Results indicate that women experience a moderate inverse correlation between positive and negative affect under conditions of low levels of health-related stress, whereas at high levels of stress, positive and negative affect become more strongly inversely correlated. Under high-stress conditions, both negative affect and positive affect have a stronger relationship to depressive symptoms than they do under low-stress conditions.
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U2 - 10.1037/0882-7974.19.3.394
DO - 10.1037/0882-7974.19.3.394
M3 - Article
C2 - 15382990
AN - SCOPUS:4344594459
VL - 19
SP - 394
EP - 401
JO - Psychology and Aging
JF - Psychology and Aging
SN - 0882-7974
IS - 3
ER -