Psychosocial factors of caregiver burden in child caregivers: results from the new national study of caregiving

Table 2 Sensitivity analysis of caregiver burden domains by caregiver subgroup

	All caregivers	Males	Females	Sandwiched adult children caregivers	Non-sandwiched adult children caregivers
Down & depressed	0.756	0.771	0.755	0.745	0.762	1. Negative emotional
Nervous	0.745	0.725	0.748	0.710	0.753
Worried	0.642	0.575	0.671	0.667	0.638
Little interest	0.574	0.553	0.588	0.541	0.570
Upset	0.522	0.543	0.523	0.425	0.560
Lonely	0.504	0.457	0.513	0.388	0.542
Peaceful	0.819	0.810	0.819	0.819	0.816	2. Positive emotional
Full of life	0.803	0.810	0.795	0.818	0.806
Cheerful	0.766	0.807	0.738	0.780	0.780
Group activities	0.713	0.679	0.726	0.673	0.708	3. Social
Volunteers	0.601	0.667	0.601	0.475	0.592
Religious services	0.536	0.635	0.501	0.571	0.509
Visiting family & friends	0.496	0.446	0.487	0.542	0.508
Out for enjoyment	0.483	0.416	0.460	0.455	0.477
Paid for meds/med care	0.759	0.672	0.771	0.731	0.769	4. Financial
Gave CR gift	0.748	0.669	0.663	0.683	0.752
Worked for pay	0.504	0.539	0.502	0.612	0.429
Cronbach’s alpha	0.710	0.661	0.730	0.696	0.737	Factor 1
	0.790	0.797	0.786	0.809	0.792	Factor 2
	0.510	0.502	0.511	0.496	0.496	Factor 3
	0.461	0.368	0.455	0.503	0.384	Factor 4
% variance explained	46.4	46.5	46.8	48.4	46.6

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