ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN CARING FOR ELDERLY PARENTS

照顾年迈父母的亚裔美国妇女

• 批准号: 2257122
• 负责人: PATRICIA S. JONES
• 金额: $ 11.35万
• 依托单位: LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-09-01 至 2000-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2257122
• 关键词: Asian Americans; aging; caregivers; culture; family structure /dynamics; female; health; human subject; interview; parents; psychological stressor; psychological values; role

DESCRIPTION: (Adapted from applicants abstract) Asian American older adults in the United States are growing more rapidly than any other group. Between 1980 and 1990 Asian and Pacific Islander elderly (individuals over than age of 65) in California increased by 143.9 percent. Care of the nations elderly has been shown to be primarily by families, particularly women. This responsibility is even greater for females in Asian cultures where a womans obligation to her family often takes priority over obligations to self, religion, or country. Caregiving demands coupled with the economic necessity of employment outside the home places female Asian immigrants in the United States in double jeopardy. They are subject to stress from combining caregiving with employment and other roles, and to additional stress because of the conflict of traditional cultural values with acculturative forces in the United States which support independence of women and the rights of the individual. These forces pull Asian American women in two opposing directions in the context of caring for elderly parents. At the same time it is possible that cultural values of family centrality, interdependence and reciprocity serves to balance some of the demands and mediate stress. The problems Asian American women caregivers face have had very limited attention. Chinese and Filipino Americans are the two largest groups of Asians in California and in San Bernardino, Los Angeles, and Riverside counties. The objectives of this study are to generate a theory of caregiving for elderly parents by women in Chinese and Filipino families; and, to compare and contrast the formulation with existing theories that describe family caregiving and women s roles in non-Asian American families. The specific aims of the study are: 1) To describe the process of caregiving for elderly parents by Chinese and Filipino American women; 2) To test Pearlin s caregiver stress model on Chinese and Filipino American women caring for elderly parents: a) describe and examine relationships among caregiving demands, resources and outcomes in the two groups of women; b) describe and examine relationships among role identity, role integration, and perceived health in two groups, and differences between the groups. It is hypothesized that both role identity and role integration and perceived health have a positive relationship to perceived health; c) identify predictors of perceived health in Chinese and Filipino American women caregivers. This will be a descriptive correlational study using both grounded theory and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis. Grounded theory analysis will be used to examine and report data for Aim #1. Correlation and regression analysis will be used to examine and report data for Aim #2. The study requires 5 years of effort to be completed. Years 1, 2, and 3 will be used to translation and testing of tools, and for interviews with 60 informants. Year 4 will complete collection and analysis of data and year 5 will be for preparation of manuscripts and writing the final report.

描述：（改编自申请人摘要）亚裔美国人老年人 美国的成年人比其他任何国家都增长得更快， 组1980 - 1990年亚洲和太平洋岛屿老年人 加州的65岁以上人口增加了143.9 百分之对老年人的照顾已被证明主要是由 家庭，尤其是女性。这一责任更大， 在亚洲文化中，妇女对家庭的义务往往 优先于对自己、宗教或国家的义务。 照顾需求加上就业的经济必要性 家庭以外的地方，女性亚洲移民在美国， 双重危险他们承受着来自于混合动力汽车 与就业和其他角色，并额外的压力，因为 传统文化价值观与文化适应力量的冲突 支持妇女独立和妇女权利的美国 单独的.这些力量把亚裔美国妇女拉进两个对立的阵营， 在照顾老年父母方面的方向。在同一 时间是可能的，家庭中心的文化价值观， 相互依存和互惠有助于平衡一些需求， 并调节压力。亚裔美国女性照顾者面临的问题 受到的关注非常有限。华裔和菲律宾裔美国人是 在加州和洛杉矶的圣贝纳迪诺， 洛杉矶和滨江县。本研究的目的是 产生了中国女性赡养老人的理论 和菲律宾家庭;以及，比较和对比的提法与 现有的理论描述了家庭的组成和妇女在家庭中的作用， 非亚裔美国家庭研究的具体目的是：1） 描述了中国人为年迈的父母养老的过程， 菲律宾裔美国妇女; 2）测试Pearlin的照顾者压力模型， 照顾年迈父母的华裔和菲律宾裔美国妇女：a） 描述和检查企业需求、资源 两组妇女的结果; B）描述和检查 角色认同、角色整合和感知之间的关系 两组的健康状况，以及组间的差异。是 假设角色认同和角色整合， 健康与感知健康有正相关; c）确定 中国和菲律宾裔美国妇女自觉健康的预测因子 照顾者这将是一项描述性相关研究， 数据收集和分析的基础理论和定量方法。 扎根理论分析将用于检查和报告Aim的数据 #1.相关和回归分析将用于检查和 报告目标#2的数据。这项研究需要5年的努力， 完成第1年、第2年和第3年将用于翻译和测试 的工具，并采访了60名线人。第四年将完成 收集和分析数据，第5年将用于编制 写论文，写最后报告。