ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN CARING FOR ELDERLY PARENTS

描述：(改编自申请者摘要)亚裔美国老年人 美国成年人的增长速度比其他任何国家都快 一群人。1980-1990年间亚太岛民老人 加利福尼亚州(65岁以上的个人)增加了143.9 百分比。据显示，照顾国家老年人主要是通过 家庭，尤其是女性。这个责任就更大了 亚洲文化中的女性，在那里女性对家庭的义务通常 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 在家之外，美国的亚裔女性移民 双重危险。他们会因为同时照顾孩子而承受压力 就业和其他角色，以及由于 中国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 个人的。这些力量将亚裔美国女性拉入两个对立的阵营 在照顾年迈父母方面的指导。同时 家庭中心的文化价值观是可能的， 相互依赖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 得到的关注非常有限。中国人和菲律宾裔美国人是 加利福尼亚州和洛杉矶圣贝纳迪诺的两个最大的亚洲群体 洛杉矶县和河滨县。这项研究的目的是 用中文产生由女性照顾年迈父母的理论 和菲律宾家庭；以及，将该提法与 现有的描述家庭照顾和女性S角色的理论 非亚裔美国家庭。研究的具体目的是：1) 描述中国人照顾年迈父母的过程和 菲律宾裔美国女性；2)测试培林S照顾者压力模型 中国和菲律宾裔美国妇女照顾年迈的父母：a) 描述和检查护理需求、资源 和两组妇女的结果；b)描述和检查 角色认同、角色整合与知觉的关系 两组的健康状况，以及组间的差异。它是 假设角色认同和角色整合以及感知 健康与感知健康有正相关关系；c)确定 中国和菲律宾裔美国女性自感健康的预测因素 照顾者。这将是一项描述性相关研究，使用两种方法 扎根的理论和量化的数据收集与分析方法。 将使用扎根的理论分析来检查和报告AIM的数据 #1.将使用相关和回归分析来检验和 为目标2报告数据。这项研究需要5年的努力才能 完成。第一年、第二年和第三年将用于翻译和测试 工具，并与60名线人进行了面谈。第四年将会结束 收集和分析数据和第5年将用于准备 手稿和撰写最终报告。

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.