Caregiver Self Efficacy Paper
The Revised Scale of Caregiver Self-Efficacy will be utilized to measure caregiver self-efficacy. This scale is a revision of the Caregiver Self-Efficacy Scale and researchers who developed the revision are Ann M. Steffen, Christine McKibbin, Antonette M. Zeiss, Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, and Albert Bandura (Steffen, McKibbin, Zeiss, Gallagher-Thompson, & Bandura, 2002). The intent of the revision was to correct limitations of the preliminary caregiving self-efficacy scales’ measures. (Steffen et al., 2002). They found that caregiver self-efficacy for treating distressing and unhealthy thinking about their caregiving circumstances were not included in the preliminary measure (Steffen et al., 2002). Their study had two independent samples that