Social support and caregiver distress: a replication analysis.
Social support and caregiver distress: a replication analysis.
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社会支持和照顾者的困扰：复制分析。
DOI：
10.1093/geronb/56.4.s249
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发表时间：
2001
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通讯作者：
Young,RF
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作者：
Miller,B;Townsend,A;Carpenter,E;Montgomery,RV;Stull,D;Young,RF
目的：先前的研究以不同的方式对社会支持进行了概念化和操作化，因此很难确定研究结果的不一致是否是由于研究设计、样本、概念化或测量的差异。本研究探讨了在过去10年中进行的许多代表性的4个以社区为基础的调查研究的社会支持和照顾者困扰的模型的可复制性。我们的目标是确定在整个datasets.Methods的结果一致的领域。作者分析了3个模型，指定模式的关系，社会支持和抑郁症（主效应，中介效应，适度效应）分别在数据集内使用分层普通最小二乘回归。结果进行了比较跨datasets.Results.The复制分析证实了鲁棒性的行为问题和照顾者的健康作为重要的贡献者照顾者的痛苦。然而，研究社会支持与苦恼之间关系模式的假设结果并不一致。只有1种类型的社会支持与痛苦在预期的方向：情感支持较少，与较高水平的痛苦在2的4个datasets.Discussion.更复杂的理论模型，包括共同的措施，以代表类型的压力源，类型的支持，和他们的相互作用之间的联系，需要促进研究结果的可复制性和普遍性。
Objectives.Prior studies have conceptualized and operationalized social support in different ways, making it difficult to determine if the inconsistencies in findings are due to differences in study design, samples, conceptualization, or measurement. The present study examined the replicability of models of social support and caregiver distress across 4 community-based caregiving studies representative of many conducted in the past 10 years. The goal was to identify areas of consistency in findings across the data sets.Methods.The authors analyzed 3 models specifying patterns of relationship between social support and depression (main effect, mediation effect, and moderation effect) separately within data sets using hierarchical ordinary least squares regression. Results were compared across data sets.Results.The replication analysis confirmed the robustness of behavior problems and caregiver health as important contributors to caregiver distress. Results of hypotheses examining the pattern of relationship between social support and distress were inconsistent, however. Only 1 type of social support was associated with distress in the expected direction: Less emotional support was associated with higher levels of distress in 2 of the 4 data sets.Discussion.More complex theoretical models that incorporate common measures to represent the linkages between types of stressor, types of support, and their interactions are needed to foster replicability and generalizability of research results.