Table A1.
Five factors of coping strategies and those Itemsa.
| Coping strategies | Factor loadingsc |
|---|---|
| Keeping Their Own Pace (three items) | |
| You take care of an elderly person within your own ability avoiding being overloaded.b | 0.662 |
| You take care of your own health because it would be more trouble if you get sick. | 0.582 |
| You spend cheerfully every day without giving up your hope. | 0.638 |
| Diversion (two items) | |
| You refresh yourself by doing things you like or seeing your friends.b | 0.644 |
| You take time for yourself intentionally to avoid being tied up by caregiving. | 0.828 |
| Positive Acceptance of Caregiving Role (four items) | |
| You communicate well with an elderly person and respect his/her own feelings and intentions.b | 0.958 |
| You treat an elderly person with your whole heart. | 0.856 |
| You try to meet a request from an elderly person as soon as possible. | 0.794 |
| You take care of an elderly person as hard as possible. | 0.669 |
| Informal Support Seeking (three items) | |
| You encourage each other among caregivers.b | 0.698 |
| You ask your family, relatives and friends to listen to your worries. | 0.567 |
| You ask your family, relatives and friends to help with care for avoiding doing everything yourself. | 0.632 |
| Formal Support Seeking (four items) | |
| You seek advice from specialists: medical doctor, nurse, and social worker etc. about caregiving.b | 0.596 |
| You collect the helpful information for caregiving. | 0.634 |
| You use in-home care services actively. | 0.500 |
| You make preparation for the sudden changes in the condition of elderly person. | 0.481 |
Notes: In this table, contents of Japanese literature (Okabayashi et al., 1999) were translated into English.
a
χ2 (96, N = 834) = 417.912, p < 0.001; GFI = 0.925; AGFI = 0.894; RMSEA = 0.0634.
b
reference indicators.
c
standardized coefficients.