"It Takes Two to Take": Caregiving Style, Relational Entitlement, and Medication Adherence

Partners' support has been associated with both patients' increased and decreased inclination toward health-promoting behaviors. Our hypothesis for understanding this enigma is that it is the interplay between partners' manner of care provision and patients' ability to accept the...

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Published in:Journal of family psychology 2016-09, Vol.30 (6), p.743-751
Main Authors: George-Levi, Sivan, Vilchinsky, Noa, Tolmacz, Rami, Khaskiaa, Abid, Mosseri, Morris, Hod, Hanoch
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adherence
Adult
Aged
Cardiac surgery
Cardiovascular Disorders
Caregivers
Caregivers - psychology
Caregiving
Couples
Drug Therapy
Drugs
Entitlement
Entitlement (Psychological)
Female
Health behavior
Health promotion
Heart Diseases - psychology
Hospitalization
Human
Humans
Interpersonal Relationships
Male
Medication Adherence - psychology
Middle Aged
Patients
Personality
Questionnaires
Self regulation
Service provision
Spouses - psychology
Treatment Compliance
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Summary:Partners' support has been associated with both patients' increased and decreased inclination toward health-promoting behaviors. Our hypothesis for understanding this enigma is that it is the interplay between partners' manner of care provision and patients' ability to accept these care efforts that may best predict patients' adherence. Thus, the current study's main goal was to examine the contribution of the interaction between caregivers' support style (sensitive and compulsive) and cardiac patients' sense of relational entitlement (restricted, excessive, assertive, entitlement expectations) to patients' medication adherence. The Adult Caregiving Questionnaire, the Sense of Relational Entitlement Scale, and the Medication Adherence Report Scale were administered to 114 cardiac patients and their partners, during patients' hospitalizations and 6 months later. The lowest levels of medication adherence were detected among patients high on restricted entitlement who were married to partners high on compulsive caregiving style. These findings strengthen our claim that it is the interaction between recipients' personality and providers' support style which explain self-regulatory processes that arise during times of family medical crises.
ISSN:0893-3200
1939-1293
DOI:10.1037/fam0000203