Miron Anca M, Thompson Ashley E, McFadden Susan H, Ebert Alexandria R
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA.
Dementia (London). 2019 Apr;18(3):1025-1041. doi: 10.1177/1471301217700965. Epub 2017 Mar 28.
Young adults' concerns and coping strategies related to their face-to-face interactions with their grandparents/great-grandparents with dementia were explored through the lens of a solidarity-conflict conceptual framework. Participants indicated concerns about their inability to maintain the relational connection, not knowing what to say or how to behave, their lack of perspective-taking skills and emotion-regulation strategies, interacting with an ever-changing other, as well as concerns about other co-participants in the interaction. Participants' coping strategies were driven by two interaction motives: maintaining solidarity (e.g., desire to maintain and improve the interaction with the grandparent by seeking the other's company, loving the other, and maintaining the other's personhood) and dealing with conflict (e.g., dealing with self-focused concerns about lack of skills and knowledge by engaging in substitute avenues for communication and down-regulating negative affect). Implications for improving interactions between young adults and their grandparents/great-grandparents with dementia are discussed.
通过团结-冲突概念框架，探讨了年轻人在与患有痴呆症的祖父母/曾祖父母进行面对面互动时的担忧和应对策略。参与者表示担心自己无法维持关系连接，不知道该说什么或如何表现，缺乏换位思考能力和情绪调节策略，与不断变化的对方互动，以及对互动中的其他共同参与者的担忧。参与者的应对策略由两种互动动机驱动：维持团结（例如，渴望通过寻求对方陪伴、关爱对方和维护对方人格来维持和改善与祖父母的互动）和处理冲突（例如，通过采用替代沟通途径和下调负面影响来处理对自身技能和知识不足的关注）。讨论了改善年轻人与患有痴呆症的祖父母/曾祖父母之间互动的意义。
