The purpose of this study is to investigate the caregiver stress according to caregiver type. For its purpose, the sample was selected from 81 grandmothers living with only her husband and 178 daughters-in-law living with one parents-in-law at least. ...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the caregiver stress according to caregiver type. For its purpose, the sample was selected from 81 grandmothers living with only her husband and 178 daughters-in-law living with one parents-in-law at least. The results of this study are summarized as follows : 1. Care receiver`s problem, caregiving stress perception, stress coping of grandmothers and daughters-in-law differ each other and under many variables. In the care receiver`s problem, the care receiver`s problem mean of grandmother`s case was higher than that of daughters-in-law case therefore they thought thinking abilities and problematic behavior positively. In the caregiving stress perception, daughters-in-law case was stressed more than grandmother`s case generally. In the stress coping, grandmother`s case used the stress coping strategies more of ten than daughters-in-law case. 2. The care receiver`s problem, caregiving stress perception, stress coping strategies are correlated by the grandmothers and daughters-in-law. In both cases, the more thinking abilities is good and problematic behavior is rare, the less caregiver is stressed and often used the coping strategies. 3. In both cases, physical health status of the received care affected the correlation of care receiver`s problem, caregiving stress perception, stress coping strategies.