Is providing informal care a path to meaningful and satisfying ageing?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F20%3A00115022" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/20:00115022 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616696.2018.1547838" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616696.2018.1547838</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2018.1547838" target="_blank" >10.1080/14616696.2018.1547838</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Is providing informal care a path to meaningful and satisfying ageing?
Original language description
This study examines the relationship between the provision of informal care and three specific feelings important in later life – loneliness, meaningfulness of life, and overload. The paper contributes to the research of this frequently studied topic through examining effects of the intensity and multiplicity of care as well as the availability of formal care at the national level to consider the complexity and context-dependence of the effect of caregiving. Data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe for 14 countries is analysed using multilevel regression with important domains of subjective quality of life in older ages as dependent variables. The general effect of providing care is enhancing and this effect is even more pronounced for multiple caregiving. However, this beneficial effect is not significant for very intensive care. Further, higher availability of formal care increases the quality of life, but reduces the beneficial effect of caregiving on loneliness. Overall, the theory of role accumulation is more suitable to explain the provision of care at older ages than the theory of role strain, but the crucial factor for understanding the effect of caregiving is context-sensitivity.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Societies
ISSN
1461-6696
e-ISSN
1469-8307
Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
101-121
UT code for WoS article
000507611500006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85057310639