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Perceived Distress of Dementia Symptoms and Their Impact on Well-Being.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Perceived Distress of Dementia Symptoms and Their Impact on Well-Being./
Author:	MacNeil, Amanda M.
Description:	1 online resource (124 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-02B.
Subject:	Psychology. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798383584859

Perceived Distress of Dementia Symptoms and Their Impact on Well-Being.
MacNeil, Amanda M.

Perceived Distress of Dementia Symptoms and Their Impact on Well-Being. - 1 online resource (124 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cleveland State University, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references

As researchers have become more interested in understanding the lived experience of individuals with dementia, they have begun to expand their focus to various aspects of the experience. This study examined the impact of perceptions, including perceived memory difficulty, dyadic relationship difficulty, and self-efficacy difficulty, as well as the resulting distress of these symptoms on quality of life, depressive symptoms, and anxiety symptoms. The goals of this study were to: (1) understand the predictive ability of a set of predictors on each well-being outcome, (2) understand incremental variance added by domains of the Stress Process Model for Individuals with Dementia, and (3) understand the predictive power of difficulty vs. distress measures. Using hierarchical regression, the set of difficulty and distress measures predicted significant variance in quality of life (R2 = .25, F (6, 55) = 3.06, p = .001), depressive symptoms (R2 = .27, F (6,55) = 3.43, p = .006), and anxiety symptoms (R2 = .40, F (6,55) = 6.22, p < .001). Secondary strains only added incremental variance above and beyond primary stressors for anxiety symptoms. Lastly, results suggest the importance of difficulty measures, above and beyond distress measures, in predicting well-being outcomes in individuals with dementia. Findings add to the literature by showing the importance of perceptions of difficulty, and distress, which has not been studied prior. Future work should continue to include individuals with dementia in research, while trying to gain a more nuanced understanding of their subjective experiences by including their perceptions of the difficulties they experience.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798383584859Subjects--Topical Terms:

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