Caregiving and Culture

Caregiving and Culture

The sociocultural stress and coping model (SSCM) emphasizes the importance of cultural beliefs in the process of caregiving. The revised SSCM highlights a common core model can be seen across cultures and posits that specific cultural variables possess multidimensional characteristics. Research indicates that the culture-specific measures of familism, social support and stress-related growth may serve as good examples to apply the revised SSCM to Korean, Korean-American and African-American caregivers. Other culture-specific measures applying to other ethnic groups should continue to be sought out.