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The relationship between social ties and emotional and physical well-being among spousal caregivers of patients with dementia

Stuckey, Jon Carl
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1056486142

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1992, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Sociology.
The importance of the relationship between social ties and emotional well-being can be traced to Durkheim who maintained that "egoistic" suicide may occur when individuals have no linkages to others in their society. More recently, a positive relationship between social ties and health status has been documented in the social epidemiological literature. However, in contemporary interpretations of these findings, social ties tend to be subsumed under the rubric "social support." As a result, important analytical distinctions between the concepts of "ties" and "support" have been blurred. Further, the level of satisfaction with ties has not been closely investigated. Currently, it is unclear whether the number of ties or the satisfaction with ties is more important to understanding well-being. Studies in caregiver research exemplify the conceptual ambiguity resulting from the blurring of the distinctions between social ties and social support. Social ties have either served as proxy measures for social support, or have been used to predict patterns of, and satisfaction with, social support. Little attention has been focused exclusively upon social ties as determinants of the effects of caregiving and emotional and physical well-being. This study proposes that the number of social ties and satisfaction with social ties make independent contributions to caregiver burden and emotional and physical well-being among spousal caregivers of dementia patients. Results of the path analyses conducted for this project suggest that while neither the number of ties, nor the satisfaction with ties were related to caregiver burden, both contributed to an understanding of emotional and physical well-being.
Kathleen Smyth (Advisor)
136 p.
social ties emotional physical well-being spousal caregivers dementia

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  • Stuckey, J. C. (1992). The relationship between social ties and emotional and physical well-being among spousal caregivers of patients with dementia [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1056486142

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Stuckey, Jon. The relationship between social ties and emotional and physical well-being among spousal caregivers of patients with dementia. 1992. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1056486142.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Stuckey, Jon. "The relationship between social ties and emotional and physical well-being among spousal caregivers of patients with dementia." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1056486142

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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