Psychosocial Adjustment of Adolescents and Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

Autor/inn/en	Mueller, Christian E.; Prout, H. Thompson
Titel	Psychosocial Adjustment of Adolescents and Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
Quelle	In: Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2 (2009) 4, S.294-311 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1931-5864
Schlagwörter	Mental Retardation; Young Adults; Adolescents; Depression (Psychology); Adjustment (to Environment); Social Development; Comparative Analysis; Psychological Patterns; Family Relationship; Self Concept; Age Differences; Mothers; Fathers; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Life Satisfaction; Parent Child Relationship; National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geistige Behinderung; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Soziale Entwicklung; Selbstkonzept; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Mother; Mutter; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Lebensvollendung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Abstract	Issues with adolescents with intellectual disabilities have received little attention in the research literature. This study compared adolescents with and without intellectual disabilities on several indices of psychosocial adjustment. The participants were selected from a large longitudinal database and comparisons were made at three points in time. Analyses indicated that adolescents with intellectual disabilities report mild to moderate depression over time when compared with their typically developing peers, they express more family connectedness, but differ little on measures of self-concept. In later adolescence, typically developing adolescents appear to have a significant increase in optimism that is not experienced by the adolescents with intellectual disabilities. Implications of the findings are discussed as well directions for further investigation. (Contains 8 tables and 3 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10