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Children’s Optimism and Coping with Stress When Living with a Parent with Depression
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)
In the U.S. approximately 16% of people are affected by depression in their lifetime and it is estimated that depression will become the leading cause of disability worldwide by 2020 (Monroe & Reid, 2009). In order to ...
Children Coping with Cancer: Associations with Stress Reactivity, Age and Gender
(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-23)
The present study focuses on how gender, age, and stress reactivity are associated with the ways that children cope with cancer. The sample consisted of 336 families; parents and children completed questionnaires near the ...
Executive Function, Coping, and Depressive Symptoms in Children of Depressed and non-Depressed Mothers
(Vanderbilt University, 2017)
The present study examined the concurrent associations among executive functioning, coping, maternal depression history, and depressive symptoms in adolescents. The sample included 82 adolescents between the ages of 12 and ...
Associations of Maternal Macro- and Micro-Level Communication Styles and Child Emotions During Parent-Child Discussions About Children’s Cancer
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)
Previous research indicates that children with pediatric cancer may be at risk for both short-term and long-term emotional difficulties including anxiety and depression. Parent communication may guide a child in successfully ...
Disordered Eating, Coping, and Perfectionism in a College Sample
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-03)
Perfectionistic tendencies and coping strategies have been implicated as important factors in both the onset and maintenance of eating disorders but have not been widely researched in conjunction with each other. Given the ...
Similarity between Parent’s and Children’s Coping with Childhood Cancer
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-02)
The current study will examine the degree of similarity in ways of coping in a sample of children with newly diagnosed cancer and their parents. There is a relationship between mother’s coping and children’s coping, which ...
Neurocognitive Effects of Radiation Therapy in Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-29)
This study characterizes the neurocognitive late effects of treatment in pediatric
brain tumor survivors by examining patterns of executive function, coping, emotional
outcomes, and brain activation. We examined associations ...
Refining a Measure of Appraisal Style
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-05)
The following study addresses creating a new, more efficient measure for evaluating appraisal styles, specifically emotion-focused, or accommodative-focused, coping potential and problem-focused coping potential. The ...
Problem- Focused and Emotion-Focused Coping Potential in Adjustment to College
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-05)
An individual engages in coping when he or she uses cognitive and behavioral efforts to deal with the internal or external demands of a stressful situation to make it more congruent with his or her goals (Smith & Lazarus, ...
Effects of Treatment on Neurocognitive and Psychosocial Development in Adolescent Brain Tumor Survivors
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-28)
Research on the cognitive and psychosocial effects of treatment for childhood brain tumors has consistently found deficits in these areas. However, the connections between these deficits, as well as their biological basis, ...