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The Social Environment And The Adaptation Of Mothers Of Physically Handicapped Children, Heather Banis, Jan Wallander, James Varni, Lina Babani, Christine Dehaan, Karen Wilcox
The Social Environment And The Adaptation Of Mothers Of Physically Handicapped Children, Heather Banis, Jan Wallander, James Varni, Lina Babani, Christine Dehaan, Karen Wilcox
Heather Banis
Evaluated relationships between social environmental characteristics and adaptation in 50 mothers of congenitally physically handicapped 6- to 11-year-old children. Mothers reported on utilitarian resources, child adjustment, psychosocial family resources, service utilization, and three dimensions of adaptation. Analyses of the concurrent correlational design indicated significant proportions of the variance in mental and social functioning were explained by features of the social environment. Mother's physical health could not be significantly predicted. Consistently strong contributions were made by psychosocial family resources in all adaptation domains.
Family Resources As Resistance Factors For Psychological Maladjustment In Chronically Ill And Handicapped Children, Heather Banis, Jan Wallander, James Varni, Lina Babani, Karen Wilcox
Family Resources As Resistance Factors For Psychological Maladjustment In Chronically Ill And Handicapped Children, Heather Banis, Jan Wallander, James Varni, Lina Babani, Karen Wilcox
Heather Banis
The hypothesis that their psychological adjustment is related in part to resources present in their families was investigated in 153 children, age 4–16, who had one of five chronic physical disorders: juvenile diabetes, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, chronic obesity, spina bifida, or cerebral palsy. Their mothers completed standardized psychometric instruments to measure specific dimensions of family psychological and utilitarian resources and of child adjustment. Variation in children's psychological adjustment was related both to their psychological and utilitarian family resources. Psychological family resources contributed uniquely to the prediction of adjustment beyond that provided by utilitarian family resources. These results are discussed as …
Disability Parameters, Chronic Strain, And Adaptation Of Physically Handicapped Children And Their Mothers, Heather Banis, Jan Wallander, James Varni, Lina Babani, Christine Dehaan, Karen Wilcox
Disability Parameters, Chronic Strain, And Adaptation Of Physically Handicapped Children And Their Mothers, Heather Banis, Jan Wallander, James Varni, Lina Babani, Christine Dehaan, Karen Wilcox
Heather Banis
Investigated the contribution of disability parameters and chronic disability-related strain to the adaptation of 50 congenitally physically handicapped 6- to 11-year-old children and their mothers. Multiple dimensions of adaptation, disability status, and chronic disability-related strain were assessed with a variety of procedures. The mothers reported their children and themselves to display significantly worse adaptation than expected for a general sample. The adaptation of these children and their mothers, however, was not significantly related to the children's disability status nor the chronic strain thereto related. An exception was that the children's social functioning could be significantly explained by both of these …
Children With Chronic Physical Disorders: Maternal Reports Of Their Psychological Adjustment, Heather Banis, Jan Wallander, James Varni, Lina Babani, Karen Wilcox
Children With Chronic Physical Disorders: Maternal Reports Of Their Psychological Adjustment, Heather Banis, Jan Wallander, James Varni, Lina Babani, Karen Wilcox
Heather Banis
Advances in biomedical science have resulted in dramatic improvements in the medical care of chronically ill and handicapped children. Past measurement problems have resulted in a lack of clarity regarding the psychological adjustment of these children. The mothers of 270 chronically ill and handicapped children were administered the Child Behavior Checklist in an attempt to identify patterns of behavioral functioning across six pediatric chronic disorders: juvenile diabetes, spina bifida, hemophilia, chronic obesity, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and cerebral palsy. In general, it was found that children in all chronic disorder groups were perceived by their mothers as evidencing on the average …
The Psychosocial Adjustment And Functioning Of Obese Children And Their Families, Heather Banis
The Psychosocial Adjustment And Functioning Of Obese Children And Their Families, Heather Banis
Heather Banis
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