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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2017.15.2.503

The Study on the Mediating Effect of Caring Empowerment in the Relationship between Caring Burden and Life Design of Caregivers of Disabled Children  

Lee, Yu-Ri (Dept. of Social Welfare, Nambu University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.15, no.2, 2017 , pp. 503-510 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the mediating effect of caring empowerment in the relationship between caring burden and life design. To get the results, a survey was conducted, targeting caregivers of disabled children and caring burden, caring empowerment, life design measures were used in the survey. Key outcomes of the analysis were as follows. First, it was verified that caring burden and caring empowerment, caring empowerment and life design had a direct relationship. Second, it was analyzed that caring empowerment had a full mediating effect in the relationship between caring burden and caring empowerment. Based in these results, comprehensive interventions for activating life design were proposed.
Keywords
Life design; Caring burden; Caring empowerment; Structural Equation Modeling(SEM); Caregivers of disabled children;
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