标题：Influence of Husband Availability and Type of Care Recipient on Caregiver Stress among Married Working Women in Elder House-Hold Care System in Nigeria
期刊名称：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
印刷版ISSN：2250-0715
电子版ISSN：2248-9010
出版年度：2013
卷号：5
期号：2
页码：150-158
出版社：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
摘要：The study investigated the influence of husband availability and type of care recipient on caregiver stress among a sample of caregivers in Nigeria. The sample comprised 226 caregivers made up of 136 in-husband household caregivers and 90 out-husband household caregivers. In the in-husband household type, sixty-seven of the caregivers care for their aged mother/father while sixty-nine of them cares for their mother-in-law/ father-in-law. Among the out-husband caregivers, forty-eight of them provide care services to their mother/father while forty-two of them care for their mother-in-law/ father-in-law. The caregivers were administered with a 14-item caregiver stress questionnaire, which was designed to measure the stress caregivers experience as they take care of their mothers/fathers or fathers in-law/mothers-in-law. It was hypothesized that caregivers of in-husband household will not differ significantly from caregivers of out-husband household on caregiver stress. It was also hypothesized that caregivers that provide care services to mother/father will not differ significantly from their counterparts who provide care services to the mother-in-law/father-in-law on caregiver stress, irrespective of household type. Results showed that caregivers in the out of husband household experience more care giving stress than their counterparts in the in-husband household (F (1, 218) = 10.97, P < 0.05). Caring for the mother/father was found to be less stressful than caring for father-in-law/mother-in-law (F, (3,218) = 23.27, P < 0.05), while caring for the father-in-law was more stressful than caring for the mother-in-law. Results of this study suggest that the absence of husbands in elder care house-hold system exacerbates caregivers' stressful feelings whereas caring for mother-in-law/father-in-law is much more stressful than caring for mother/father
关键词：Household type; Care recipient; Caregiver stress; In-husband; Out-husband.
