Journal of Pediatric Psychology 14(2) pp. 193-214, 1989
© 1989 Society of Pediatric Psychology
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Relationships Among Life Stress, Perceived Family Environment, and the Psychological Distress of Spina Bifida Adolescents1
University of Delaware
2All correspondence should be sent to Lawrence H. Cohen, Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716.
Fifty-three teen-agers with spina bifida participated in a mail survey and completed measures of recent life events, perceived family environment, and psychological distress. Low levels of perceived family conflict and control served as life stress buffers in the prediction of distress, whereas a high level of perceived independence served as a life stress exacerbator. These interaction effects differ from those obtained for a normal sample of adolescents in the lone previous study (Burt, Cohen, & Bjorck, 1988) that reported comparable analyses. The results suggest that the process by which family environments moderate stress adjustment differs for able-bodied vs. spina bifida adolescents.
Key words: adolescent stress; family environment; spina bifida.
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