Making Sense of Sibling Responsibility for Family Caregiving
Making Sense of Sibling Responsibility for Family Caregiving
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理解兄弟姐妹照顾家庭的责任
DOI：
10.1177/1049732308327195
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Penny Addison
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作者：
J. Willyard;K. Miller;M. Shoemaker;Penny Addison
随着美国和地球仪的人口老龄化，家庭面临着为年迈的父母养老的决定。研究表明，在兄弟姐妹不同程度的帮助下，女儿经常承担这些压力巨大的责任。在本文中，我们在护理背景下审视了这些兄弟姐妹关系，考虑了兄弟姐妹为老年父母协商任务分工的方式，以及理解在护理活动中几乎没有提供帮助的兄弟姐妹的方式。我们的内容分析的访谈与25个家庭照顾者表明，有很少的谈判的照顾任务。此外，家庭照顾者通过三种方式理解兄弟姐妹参与养育的意义。首先，一些照顾者把养育孩子看作是一种他们特别适合的个人活动。第二，一些照顾者认为家庭生活源于家庭生活的价值观，但通过将非参与者定义为家庭界限之外来原谅他们。最后，具有强烈家庭价值观的照顾者无法通过排除性框架理解兄弟姐妹，他们在讲述自己的故事时会进行口头回溯，以此来理解个人的养育责任。
As the population in the United States and around the globe ages, families are faced with decisions about caregiving for elderly parents. Research suggests that daughters often take on these stressful caregiving responsibilities, with varying levels of help from siblings. In this article, we examine these sibling relationships within the caregiving context, considering the ways in which siblings negotiate the division of tasks for elderly parents and make sense of siblings who provide little help in caregiving activities. Our content analysis of interviews with 25 family caregivers indicated that there was little negotiation of caregiving tasks. Furthermore, family caregivers make sense of sibling participation in caregiving in three ways. First, some caregivers account for caregiving as an individual activity for which they are especially suited. Second, some caregivers see caregiving as stemming from values about family life, but excuse nonparticipant siblings by defining them as outside family boundaries. Finally, caregivers with strong family values who could not make sense of siblings through an exclusionary frame engaged in verbal backtracking during the telling of their stories as a way of making sense of personal caregiving responsibilities.