Effects of anger management on the suffering of family caregivers of people with dementia

Abstract

The main goal of this research is to study the effects of anger management on family caregivers of people with dementia focusing on the psychological and somatic distress resulting from their work as caregivers. 139 caregivers participated, 108 women (age: 53.99 years, SD = 12.22) and 31 men (age: 55.35 years, SD = 14.86). In the analysis of the results disaggregated by gender, a three-variable predictive model of anger management is observed in female caregivers (Anger Expression-Out, Anger Expression-In and Anger Control-Out) which explains 30% of the variance of psychological and somatic distress of these caregivers. Regarding male caregivers, we have obtained a two-variable predictive model of anger management (Anger Expression-Out and Anger Expression-In) explaining 40.3% of the variance in the level of psychological and somatic distress.