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Sense Making And Benefit In Couples Who Have A Child With Asperger Syndrome: An Application Of The Actor-Partner Independence Model, Christina Samios, Kenneth Pakenham, Kate Sofronoff
Sense Making And Benefit In Couples Who Have A Child With Asperger Syndrome: An Application Of The Actor-Partner Independence Model, Christina Samios, Kenneth Pakenham, Kate Sofronoff
Christina Samios
Parents of children with Asperger syndrome face many challenges that may lead them to search for meaning by developing explanations for (sense making) and finding benefits (benefit finding) in having a child with special needs. Although family theorists have proposed that finding meaning occurs interpersonally, there is a dearth of empirical research that has examined finding meaning at the couple level. This study examined sense making and benefit finding in 84 couples who have a child with Asperger syndrome by using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (Kenny et al., 2006) to examine actor effects (i.e. the extent to which an individual’s …
Finding Benefits In The Aftermath Of Australia's Black Saturday Bushfires: Can Distant Witnesses Find Benefits And Do Benefits Found Relate To Better Adjustment?, Christina Samios, Kerrilee Hollows
Finding Benefits In The Aftermath Of Australia's Black Saturday Bushfires: Can Distant Witnesses Find Benefits And Do Benefits Found Relate To Better Adjustment?, Christina Samios, Kerrilee Hollows
Christina Samios
This study aimed to extend the meaning literature beyond finding meaning in personal trauma by examining the benefits found by persons who were distant witnesses to Australia’s Black Saturday bushfires. One hundred and twenty-five university students who witnessed the bushfires through the media completed measures of meaning making coping, benefits found, and adjustment. The most strongly endorsed categories of benefits found by distant witnesses were increased faith in people and increased compassion. After controlling for demographics, the duration of media exposure to the bushfires and meaning making coping, hierarchical multiple regression analyses demonstrated that the perceived benefit of enhanced self-efficacy …