Figure 1.
Hypothesized mediating effects of on the relationships between impairments of CRs, social support and caregiver mental health.
Path a represents the influence of predictors (impairments of care recipients and caregiver social support) on the mediators (five domains of caregiver self-efficacy). Path b represents the influence of meidators on outcome measure (caregiver mental health). Path c represents the direct effects of predictors on outcome measure, and Path c’ demonstrates the predictors indirectly influence outcome measure via the influence of the mediators.
Table 1.
Descriptive statistics for MMSE, DAD, RMBPC, MOS-SSS, caregiver self-efficacy and mental health.
Table 2.
Regressions of dementia-related impairments, social support on caregiver mental health (path c).
Table 3.
Regressions of dementia-related impairments and social support on caregiver self-efficacy (path a).
Table 4.
Regressions of caregiver self-efficacy on caregiver mental health (path b).
Figure 2.
Partial mediating effect of gathering information self-efficacy on the relationship between positive social interaction and caregiver mental health.
Figure 3.
Partial mediating effect of managing caregiving distress self-efficacy on the relationship between positive social interaction and caregiver mental health.
Figure 4.
Partial mediating effect of managing caregiving distress self-efficacy on the relationship between BPSD and caregiver mental health.