Accentuate the Positive to Mitigate the Negative: Mother Psychological Coping Resources and Family Adjustment in Childhood Disability

Autor/inn/en	Trute, Barry; Benzies, Karen M.; Worthington, Catherine; Reddon, John R.; Moore, Melanie
Titel	Accentuate the Positive to Mitigate the Negative: Mother Psychological Coping Resources and Family Adjustment in Childhood Disability
Quelle	In: Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 35 (2010) 1, S.36-43 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1366-8250
DOI	10.3109/13668250903496328
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Coping; Adjustment (to Environment); Family (Sociological Unit); Mental Retardation; Developmental Disabilities; Children; Emotional Response; Telephone Surveys; Foreign Countries; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Bewältigung; Familie; Geistige Behinderung; Entwicklungsstörung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Emotionales Verhalten; Telephone interview; Telefoninterview; Ausland; Kanada
Abstract	Background: Mothers' cognitive appraisal of the family impact of childhood disability and their positive affect as a psychological coping resource, both key elements of the process model of stress and coping, were tested as explanatory variables of family adjustment. Method: In a sample of Canadian families, 195 mothers of children with intellectual and developmental disability completed telephone interviews. Results: In regression modelling, 35% of the variance in family adjustment was explained by mothers' positive cognitive appraisal of family impacts of childhood disability and by their positivity (ratio of positive to negative affect). After controlling for positivity, negative cognitive appraisal of family impacts of childhood disability was non-significant. Conclusions: Family adjustment to childhood disability is associated with elements of strength in mothers' psychological coping; namely, their ability to perceive positive family consequences of childhood disability and to maintain higher proportions of positive emotion in their daily activities. The findings of this study provide support for the "broaden-and-build theory" to explain the role of "positivity" in mothers' coping and adjustment to childhood disability. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10