Chronically Ill Children: Maternal Stress and Psychological Symptomatology
Description:
This study used a parenting stress and coping model to identify predictors of symptomatology for 13 8 mothers of medically compromised children. This model proposed that: child characteristics (severity of the chronic illness and child related parenting stressors); parent characteristics (self-esteem, sense of competence, and parents' perceived stress/distress); and environmental characteristics (social support, general life stressor events, and demographic variables) contribute to psychologica…
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Date:
August 1995
Creator:
Driskill, Gail
Partner:
UNT Libraries