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Children Coping with Cancer: Associations with Stress Reactivity, Age and Gender

dc.contributor.authorHodges, Keli
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-15T21:01:06Z
dc.date.available2018-05-15T21:01:06Z
dc.date.issued2018-04-23
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/8853
dc.descriptionThis paper presents data collected in Dr. Compas's Stress and Coping Lab. It focuses on how gender, age, and stress reactivity are associated with the ways that children cope with cancer.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe 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 time of the child’s cancer diagnosis. Bivariate correlations, independent samples t-tests and linear multiple regression analyses were performed. The results showed that stress reactivity, but not age or gender, was associated with the type of coping a child used. Children who reported less reactivity to stress used more primary control and secondary control coping, while children who were more stress reactive used more disengagement coping.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors Program in Psychological Sciencesen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherVanderbilt Universityen_US
dc.subjectChildrenen_US
dc.subjectCanceren_US
dc.subject.lcshStress (Psychology)en_US
dc.subject.lcshAdjustment (Psychology)en_US
dc.titleChildren Coping with Cancer: Associations with Stress Reactivity, Age and Genderen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US


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