Mental Health and Marital Adaptation Among Mothers of Children with Cerebral Palsy

Employing a theoretical model that emphasizes risk-resistance factors for maternal adaptation, this study compared 80 mothers of children with cerebral palsy to 80 mothers of children without physical disabilities. Results revealed differences between the two groups, and indicated that, among mother...

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Veröffentlicht in:	American journal of orthopsychiatry 2001-07, Vol.71 (3), p.358-367
Hauptverfasser:	Florian, Victor, Findler, Liora
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adaptation Adaptation, Psychological Adjustment Adult Attitude towards mental illness Biological and medical sciences Cerebral Palsy Child Child rearing Child, Preschool Children Children & youth Disability Disabled Children Family Health Female Human Humans Israel Life Change Events Male Marital Adjustment Marital Satisfaction Marriage - psychology Medical sciences Mental Health Mentally disabled Mother Child Relations Mothers Mothers - psychology Physically disabled Psychiatry Psychology Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Resistance Risk Factors Self Concept Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry Stress, Psychological - diagnosis Stress, Psychological - epidemiology Stress, Psychological - psychology Surveys and Questionnaires
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Zusammenfassung:	Employing a theoretical model that emphasizes risk-resistance factors for maternal adaptation, this study compared 80 mothers of children with cerebral palsy to 80 mothers of children without physical disabilities. Results revealed differences between the two groups, and indicated that, among mothers of children with cerebral palsy, self-esteem, self-mastery, and family network size were the main variables that contributed to mothers' psychological and marital adaptation.
ISSN:	0002-9432 1939-0025
DOI:	10.1037/0002-9432.71.3.358