Journal of Pediatric Psychology 20(4) pp. 527-544, 1995
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The Role of Maternal Psychological Adjustment in the Measurement of Children's Functional Status1
Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center Preventive Intervention Research Center for Child Health
3All correspondence should be sent to Ruth E. K. Stein, Preventive Intervention Research Center for Child Health, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jack & Pearl Resnick Campus, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, NR 7 South 15, Bronx, New York 10461
Studied the ways that mothers interpret illness behavior in their children to assess whether maternal psychological adjustment predicts maternal perceptions of children's behavioral limitations and attribution of these behaviors to chronic illness. Functional status ratings and attributions to illness by 365 mothers of 5-to 8-year-old children with chronic illnesses were associated with children's overall adjustment but not with mothers' own psychological distress. Illness attributions also were related to the child's medical visits and hospitalizations. Thus, mother's illness attributions are related to her perceptions of the child's health and more general behavioral adjustment, but not to her own mental health. Results support the validity of the FS II(R) as a measure of functioning related to children's health status that is not influenced by maternal psychological adjustment.
Key words: childhood chronic illness; functional status; child adjustment; maternal mental health.
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