Coping with illness: Interrelationships across family members and predictors of psychological adjustment

Autor: Lisa Armistead, Rex Forehand, Michelle Wierson, Beth A. Kotchick, Karla Klein
Rok vydání: 1996
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Zdroj: Journal of Family Psychology. 10:358-370
ISSN: 1939-1293
0893-3200
DOI: 10.1037/0893-3200.10.3.358
Popis: This study examined coping in families in which there was a chronically ill parent. Husbands, wives, and one child (ages 7-18 years) from 75 families in which the husband had hemophilia participated. Coping styles and psychological adjustment were assessed, and patterns of coping among family members were examined. Avoidant coping was associated with poorer adjustment for all family members. In addition, the coping style of one family member was found to be related to the psychological adjustment of other family members. Avoidant coping by one spouse related to poorer psychological functioning in the other spouse, and avoidant coping by either parent related to greater child adjustment problems for girls and boys.
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