Unraveling the Neurocognitive Effects of Caregiver Stress Recall: An fNIRS Investigation
| dc.contributor.author | Singer, Katelyn Jennifer | en |
| dc.contributor.committeechair | Katz, Benjamin D. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Davy, Kevin P. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Sands, Laura Prouty | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Roberto, Karen A. | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Adult Learning and Human Resource Development | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-14T08:00:20Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2024-09-14T08:00:20Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-09-13 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Caregiving is a rewarding and strenuous activity that affects the physiological, psychological, and cognitive processes in the human body. While caregiving stress has been studied previously, these studies have overlooked a common symptom of experiencing stress: rumination. The present study explored how recalling stressful caregiving experiences affected caregiver stress levels and their performance on a test of executive function. Neural correlates underlying cognitive performance were also examined. The findings indicate that lifetime duration of caregiving activities, not recalling stressful experiences, is associated with poorer performance on the AX-CPT, though no changes in neural correlates were observed. | en |
| dc.description.abstractgeneral | Caregiving is a rewarding activity for many individuals, but it can also be associated with many consequences like changes in mental and physical health. When these stressful moments occur, it is natural for individuals to replay them in their minds. Caregivers may experience an increase in these stressful moments, but this may impede functions in those re-playing these experiences. Caregivers frequently experience stress from their care activities, which may also lead them to recall these stressors more often. The present study examined whether thinking about stressful caregiving experiences was associated with changes in physical and cognitive changes functioning in caregivers. The results indicate that the amount of time a person spends caregiving across their lifetime, not recalling stressful caregiving experiences, is related to poorer performance on a cognitive test. | en |
| dc.description.degree | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
| dc.format.medium | ETD | en |
| dc.identifier.other | vt_gsexam:41468 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10919/121132 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Virginia Tech | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | Caregiving | en |
| dc.subject | Executive Function | en |
| dc.subject | fNIRS | en |
| dc.title | Unraveling the Neurocognitive Effects of Caregiver Stress Recall: An fNIRS Investigation | en |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Human Development | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | en |
| thesis.degree.level | doctoral | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |