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Informal Caregiver Social Network Types and Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Psychological Resilience
Pildoo Sung1, Jeremy Lim-Soh2, Rahul Malhotra2,3
1Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.
Abstract:
Little is known about whether and why social networks protect mental health among informal caregivers. This study examined the association between informal caregiver social network types and depressive symptoms and the mediatory mechanism of psychological resilience. Latent class analysis, applied to cross-sectional data on 278 Singaporean caregivers, identified four social network types: restricted (42%), friend (16%), family (21%), and diverse (21%). Path analysis showed that the diverse social network type, compared to the restricted social network type, was associated with a lower level of depressive symptoms, and psychological resilience fully mediated this association. Interventions should help caregivers to maintain social networks with their family and friends.
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