Family care during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: longitudinal evidence on consequences for the well-being of caregivers.
We examine changes in the well-being of family caregivers during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the SOEP-CoV study. The COVID-19 pandemic posed an extraordinary challenge for family caregivers, as care recipients are a...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Ageing Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 1 - 12 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=163752444&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 163752444 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 16139372 3RAL jtl: European Journal of Ageing issn: 16139372 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2023 vid: 20 iid: 1 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 163752444 10.1007/s10433-023-00761-2 ppf: 1 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 821KB tig: atl: Family care during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: longitudinal evidence on consequences for the well-being of caregivers. aug: au: Möhring, Katja Zinn, Sabine Ehrlich, Ulrike affil: Faculty of Social Sciences, Economics and Business Administration, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Berlin, Germany Departement of Social Sciences, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany German Centre of Gerontology (DZA), Berlin, Germany keyword: Corona pandemic Depression First difference regression Informal care Life satisfaction SOEP-CoV Corona pandemic Depression First difference regression Informal care Life satisfaction SOEP-CoV ab: We examine changes in the well-being of family caregivers during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the SOEP-CoV study. The COVID-19 pandemic posed an extraordinary challenge for family caregivers, as care recipients are a high-risk group requiring special protection, and professional care services were severely cut back. The specific situation of the COVID-19 pandemic allows us to re-examine the caregiver stress process model. Using first difference regression models, we analyse changes in general life satisfaction and depressive symptoms (PHQ-4 score) among family caregivers between 2019 and spring 2020, differentiating by care intensity and duration of the care episode. Caregivers show similar changes in well-being as non-caregivers: a simultaneous increase in depressive symptoms and life satisfaction between 2019 and 2020. However, our results reveal heterogeneity within the group of family caregivers as we find differences according to caregiving dynamics and intensity. Among the group of continuing caregivers, high-intensity caregivers experience a larger increase in life satisfaction, and low-intensity caregivers a smaller increase in life satisfaction, compared to non-caregivers. Our results therefore provide some support for the role enhancement hypothesis for continuing caregivers with high time commitment. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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