Abstract
This study deals with old significant other who cares of his polyarthritic spouse and has to be faced with his ageing. We assume that caregiver's assessment of his spouse's pain involves psychological consequences (daily life, locus of control, distress). Moreover, we suppose that caregiver's distress influences support given to the patient. These measures are made with the Multidimensional Pain Inventory Significant Other (Sharp et Nicholas, 2000). Thanks to the caregivers' assessment of spouses' pain experience, an average is made in order to form two groups and to yield the assessment's effect on each measure, in comparing the results with statistic tests. A correlation between distress and support is made. The outcomes of a 22 subjects sample show that the anxiest caregivers bring less support than the others (α = –0,5) and chronic pain reinforces caregivers' anxiety and cause meaning changes in their daily life, in so far as chronic pain is perceived by caregivers as very disabled.
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