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Impact of Stress Inoculation on Performance Efficacy Linked to Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

Utilizing a sample of community-residing older adults, this pretest-posttest design evaluated the short term (approximately 1 week) impact on everyday functioning of Stress Inoculation (SI) training, a cognitive-behavioral intervention that is essentially a coping skills enhancement program. The targets of training were anxiety and concern about being able to successfully perform everyday living tasks. The training program was contrasted with a no contact (waiting list) control. In an effort to… more

Date: August 1999

Creator: Galt, Cynthia P.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Identity Status and Adjustment to Loss Among Adolescents

The purpose of the present investigation was to explore the relationship of the adolescent experience of parental death to the variables of identity formation, adjustment, and coping. The inclusion of adolescents who had experienced parental divorce and those who had not experienced either loss condition allowed for group comparisons.

Date: August 1997

Creator: Servaty, Heather L.