Abstract
The purpose of this research is to clarify the gender differences in the relationship between caregiving-related daily hassles and tendency of neglect toward elderly in the family caregivers, and to aim at obtaining the basic information to contribute to prevention of elder abuse. Participants were 283 family caregivers of elderly people using nursing stations. The questionnaire included the caregiver's characteristics, recipient's characteristics, caregiving-related daily hassles and tendency of neglect toward elderly. We used data of 155 family caregivers, and examined the causal relationship model in which frequency of caregiving-related daily hassles influences tendency of neglect toward elderly through weight of caregiving-related daily hassles, by using the structural equation modeling. The results were as follows, 1) in male caregivers, degree of difficulty of using resources (0.538, p<0.05) and time constraint (-0.288, p<0.10) were associated with tendency of neglect toward elderly, 2) in female caregivers, degree of involvement with elderly persons who require assistance (0.248, p<0.10) was associated with tendency of neglect toward elderly. The above results suggest that reducing caregiving-related daily hassles is helpful to reduce the tendency of neglect toward elderly, although the affective aspects of caregiving-related daily hassles differ by gender.
