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International Journal of
Population Studies Intergenerational relationships and caregiving burden

Summary of main results For sons, feeling appreciated by the care recipient was significantly linked to lower emotional burden in 2015, but not significant in 2011 and other kinds of burden • The positive interaction between the dyad and the presence of conflicts were, respectively, negatively and positively correlated with burden • The presence of burden was predictive of a worse interaction between the dyad and

Caregiver burden measurement Is helping the recipient emotionally/ financially/physically difficult for you? (binary: Yes or no) ZBI ZBI

Intergenerational relationship- related variable (V); measurement (M) • V=felt appreciated by the care recipient • M= “Does the elderly care recipient appreciate you?” (binary: Yes or no) • V=dyadic relationship • M=Brazilian version of the Dyadic Relationship Scale (Sebern and Whitlatch,2007) 11 items divided into two independent subscales: “Positive interaction” (6 items) and “Conflict” (5 items) • V1=the relationship with

Basic theory The stress appraisal model NA NA

Figure out the impact of caregiver characteristics, tasks, and resources on caregiving burden of male caregivers as spouses, sons, and other caregivers Verify (a) if a positive interaction and the presence of conflicts in dyads with an adult-child caregiver and an older adult care recipient are related to caregivers’ mental health problems (specifically burden and depression) and (b) if the presence of burden a

Study aim the dyad burden

Sample size; kinship • 2007 caregivers in 2011 and 2204 in 2015 • sons (54% in 2011 and 53% in 2015) husbands/spouses/ partners (26% in 2011 and 28% in 2015) others (21% in 2011 and 20% in 2015) • 138 caregivers who were children of elderly people who needed help due to physical, cognitive, or both types of dependency • sons (10.9%) daughters (89.1%) • 168 dyads of adult- child caregivers and their parents •

Table 1. (Continued). Study design; Authors; year location; year Cross-sectional; (Lopez- USA; 2011 Anuarbe and and 2015 Kohli, 2019) National Study of Caregiving (NSOC) database Cross-sectional; (Queluz, Brazil; NA de Santis, de Fatima Kirchner, et al., 2022) Cross-sectional; (Wu, Liu, Cao, China; 2005 et al., 2021) (CLHLS) NA: Not available, specified, or reported

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