Efectos de variables culturales en los procesos de estrés y afrontamiento

Abstract

Using the sociocultural stress and coping model as a framework, the paper summarizes recent research on the role of cultural values in stress and coping processes for family caregivers of persons with dementia. The review calls attention to the need for specific measurement of cultural values within groups, rather than relying on general constructs such as familism. For example, filial piety seems to capture East Asian values better than a common familism measure. In research so far, the effect of cultural values on caregivers’ mental health seems not to be mediated by appraisal of caregiving as burdensome as the model proposed, but mainly through effects on coping styles and on social support. The effects of cultural values on caregivers’ emotional distress appears to be more complex and more specific to each cultural group than originally proposed.