Christopher J. Burant

TL;DR: An examination of the ways in which nondisabled people are involved in the lives of their siblings who have chronic disabilities, an exploration of the predictors of current and future sibling involvement, and an investigation of the extent to which present and futureibling involvement affect the well-being of aging mothers are investigated.

TL;DR: Data from caregivers, their husbands, and children support the parallel channel hypothesis, with greater interdependence of psychological process being associated with greater role centrality.

TL;DR: The parallel channel hypothesis, which suggests that positive and negative aspects of mental health have differential predictors, was tested and results indicate that negative caregiving appraisals were predicted by quality of the mother-child relationship, while negative well-being was predicted by mother's health, child's behaviors, and negative appraisal.

TL;DR: For women and children who were living in multigenerational households that included a disabled older relative, the best predictors of depression, positive affect, and mastery were their own coping strategies; the coping strategies used by other family members did not add significantly to the predictive equation.