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Mothers Coping with Childhood Cancer in the Context of Sociodemographic Disadvantage: Interactive and Longitudinal Effects on Depressive Symptoms
(2017-02-20)
The present study integrated and expanded upon two previously separate lines of research on stress and coping processes endemic to mothers faced with two significant sources of stress: mothers coping with a child’s cancer ...
Stress, Negative Cognitive Style, and Coping as Predictors of Depressive Symptoms in Children of Depressed Parents
(2010-04-08)
Stress, 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 ...
Development and Initial Validation of Adolescent Responses to Body Dissatisfaction
(2011-08-01)
One community sample (N = 607) of youths generated self-reported responses to body dissatisfaction, from which the Adolescent Responses to Body Dissatisfaction (ARBD) inventory was constructed. A second similar sample (N ...
Sticking it out: Accommodative and Problem-Focused Coping in Adjustment to College
(2013-08-07)
There are two main type of coping: accommodative coping and problem-focused coping. Accommodative coping occurs when a person changes their beliefs, values, and goals to become more congruent with a stressful situation. ...
Parental Depression, Economic Disadvantage, and the Dual Process Model of Responses to Stress in Children
(2009-03-30)
Previous research has shown that both having a parent with depression and economic disadvantage are chronically stressful and lead to poorer outcomes in children and adolescents, but these stressors have never been studied ...
Stress reactivity and regulation in young adults at varied risk for depression
(2011-06-28)
This study examined cortisol reactivity and regulation to a psychosocial stress task in 102 young adults, ages 18 to 31 (mean age = 22.97, SD = 3.87), at varied risk for depression (56 remitted depressed, 46 never depressed). ...
Recurrent Abdominal Pain, Anxiety, and Responses to Stress in Children and Adolescents
(2008-05-20)
Recurrent 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 ...
Effects of Acute and Chronic Stress on Attention and Psychobiological Stress Reactivity in Women
(2012-08-12)
The current study investigated the role of chronic stress in alterations in automatic attentional and stress reactivity processes that may affect vulnerability to mental and physical illness in women. Participants were ...
Posttraumatic stress symptoms, coping, emotion processes, and parenting in parents of children with cancer
(2011-06-29)
Parents 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, ...