Browsing by Author "Bruce E. Compas, Ph.D."
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Daigre, Amber Lynette (2010-01-04)Department: PsychologyThe objective of the study was to 1) understand the inter-relationships among variables of mother-child communication, maternal distress and illness-related stressors and 2) to isolate maternal distress and coping behaviors ...
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Lipani, Tricia A. (2006-12-20)Department: PsychologyCurrent models of chronic pain include attentional processing as an important component in the perception of pain sensations and in responses to pain such as coping (e.g., Compas & Boyer, 2001; Zeltzer, Bursch, & Walco, ...
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Dunn, Madeleine Jackson (2011-06-29)Department: PsychologyParents of children with cancer are at increased risk for clinically-elevated posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This dissertation presents the results of two studies of rates, ...
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Dufton, Lynette Marie (2008-05-20)Department: PsychologyRecurrent abdominal pain (RAP) is the most common type of recurrent pediatric pain. Much evidence shows that this condition adversely affects many areas of a child’s functioning, including repeated school problems and ...
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Desjardins, Leandra (2017-10-19)Department: PsychologyChildren diagnosed with cancer experience stress associated with their diagnosis and treatment and are at heightened risk for problems in social adjustment. The current study investigated the association between coping ...
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Potts, Jennifer Elizabeth (2010-04-08)Department: PsychologyStress, negative cognitive style, and coping were studied as predictors of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents at risk for depression. This study examined 166 children and adolescents (ages 9 to 15) of depressed ...
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Williams, Sara Elizabeth (2007-12-17)Department: PsychologyFunctional symptoms, defined as symptoms in the absence of organic disease, are common among pediatric patients. Differences exist in the clinical application of the biomedical versus biopsychosocial model in the explanation ...