TY - JOUR AU - Olteanu, Cecilia Mihaela PY - 2023/04/05 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Importance of Personality Development in Caregivers Children, Adults with Disabilities JF - New Trends in Psychology JA - NTP VL - 5 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://dj.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/NTP/article/view/2267 SP - 41-51 AB - <p>Care can include emotional and social support, help with household tasks, cooking,<br>shopping, medical care and transportation. Previous studies suggest that the heterogeneity of caregiving<br>experiences is associated with caregiver personality. There is variability in caregiving experiences, and<br>not all caregivers are equally at risk of adverse health outcomes. For example, some caregivers feel<br>more willing and confident in managing caregiving demands and experience less emotional stress and<br>burden than others. Intensive family care can also mean that the wage carer reduces working hours,<br>leading to loss. And as we learned above, the emotional consequences of caregiving include depression<br>as well as anxiety. Depression, not surprisingly, tends to be particularly high in family caregivers. The<br>authors point out that one of the reasons why personality traits affect health is that these traits strongly<br>influence caregivers’ perceptions of their ability to successfully manage the daily challenges they face.</p> ER -