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dc.contributor.authorO'Dwyer, Siobhan T
dc.contributor.authorMoyle, Wendy
dc.contributor.authorTaylor, Tara
dc.contributor.authorCreese, Jennifer
dc.contributor.authorZimmer-Gembeck, Melanie
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-13T05:59:18Z
dc.date.available2018-06-13T05:59:18Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn2076-328X
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/bs7030057
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/376852
dc.description.abstractThere is a growing body of research on resilience in family carers of people with dementia, but carers’ voices are noticeably absent from it. The aim of this study was to explore carers’ definitions of resilience and their opinions on the factors associated with resilience. Twenty-one in-depth interviews were conducted in Australia with people who were currently, or had previously been, caring for a family member with dementia. Transcripts were analysed thematically and three themes emerged: the presence of resilience, the path to resilience, and characteristics of the resilient carer. Although carers struggled to define resilience, the vast majority considered themselves resilient. Carers identified a range of traits, values, environments, resources, and behaviours associated with resilience, but there was no consensus on the relative importance or causal nature of these factors. Carers also considered resilience to be domain- and context-specific, but did not agree on whether resilience was a trait or a process. These findings highlight both the importance of including carers’ voices in resilience research and the limitations of the extant literature. There is much to be done to develop a field of carer resilience research that is theoretically sound, methodologically rigorous, and reflects the lived experience of carers. A model is provided to prompt future research.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom57-1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto57-12
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalBehavioral Sciences
dc.relation.ispartofvolume7
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther psychology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive and computational psychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClinical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBiological psychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClinical and health psychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode52
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode529999
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5204
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3202
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5202
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5203
dc.titleIn Their Own Words: How Family Carers of People with Dementia Understand Resilience
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.description.versionVersion of Record (VoR)
gro.facultyGriffith Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery
gro.rights.copyright© 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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gro.griffith.authorMoyle, Wendy
gro.griffith.authorZimmer-Gembeck, Melanie


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