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Jay L Cohen1, Brian Lakey, Kathy Tiell
1Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA. jay.cohen@wayne.edu
Abstract:
This study examined agreement between recipients and providers about social support and personality. One hundred daughter caregivers of a parent with Alzheimer's disease and each caregiver's most important support provider independently reported supportive behaviors provided to caregivers, the perceived supportiveness of the provider, and providers' personality traits. For all indices, agreement was higher for enacted support than for perceived support and personality, which were similar to each other for some, but not all, indices of agreement. These findings support the validity of measures of enacted and perceived support.
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