TY - JOUR
AU - Pierre, Claudette, B.
AB - Abstract Although children with chronic illness are at greater risk for decreased psychological adjustment than physically healthy children, little is known about the factors that lead to increased risk. Eighty-one children with asthma between the ages of 6 and 14 years and their parents participated in a study to determine the relative contribution of background variables (age, gender, and socioeconomic status), recent stressful life events, and illness severity to psychological adaptation. Overall 11.5% of the children had CBCL Total Behavior Problems scores above the 98th percentile. Multiple regression revealed that lower SES, negative life change, and high illness severity were predictive of less optimal psychological adjustment. The results highlight the need for interventions to improve coping with both disease and nondisease issues. chronic illness, asthma, psychological adjustment, stress This content is only available as a PDF. Author notes 1This research was supported by a grant from the W. T. Grant Foundation (82-0836-00). The authors acknowledge Eugene Bishop, Dan Sanders, and Steven Tate for their assistance in subject recruitment The results of this study were presented at the 29th annual meeting of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association in Washington, DC, May 1989. © 1992 Plenum Publishing Corporation
TI - Psychological Adjustment of Children with Asthma: Effects of Illness Severity and Recent Stressful Life Events
JF - Journal of Pediatric Psychology
DO - 10.1093/jpepsy/17.2.159
DA - 1992-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/psychological-adjustment-of-children-with-asthma-effects-of-illness-CgE05pU0DC
SP - 159
EP - 171
VL - 17
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -