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Poor Psychological Adjustment (poor + psychological_adjustment)
Selected AbstractsPsychological Adjustment in Young Korean American Adolescents and Parental WarmthJOURNAL OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIC NURSING, Issue 4 2008Eunjung Kim PhD PROBLEM:,The relation between parental warmth and psychological adjustment is not known for young Korean American adolescents. METHODS:,One hundred and three Korean American adolescents' perceived parental warmth and psychological adjustment were assessed using, respectively, the Parental Acceptance,Rejection Questionnaire and the Child Personality Assessment Questionnaire. FINDINGS:,Low perceived maternal and paternal warmth were positively related to adolescents' overall poor psychological adjustment and almost all of its attributes. When maternal and paternal warmth were entered simultaneously into the regression equation, only low maternal warmth was related to adolescents' poor psychological adjustment. CONCLUSION:,Perceived parental warmth is important in predicting young adolescents' psychological adjustment as suggested in the parental acceptance,rejection theory. [source] Teachers' perceptions of the emotional and behavioral functioning of children raised by grandparentsPSYCHOLOGY IN THE SCHOOLS, Issue 5 2006Oliver W. Edwards Increasing numbers of grandparents are becoming full-time surrogate parents to their grandchildren. Grandparents who raise their grandchildren reportedly endure high levels of stress, and grandchildren purportedly experience childhood trauma that can lead to poor psychological adjustment. While anecdotal reports have suggested that grandchildren experience significant behavioral problems, there is a dearth of data to empirically support this view. This research was an initial endeavor to ascertain whether teachers perceive children raised by grandparents as exhibiting serious emotional and behavioral problems. Fifty-four African American children raised by their grandparents and a comparison group of 54 African American children living with their parents were studied to determine the grandchildren's functioning. Teachers perceived the children raised by their grandparents as experiencing significantly more emotional and behavioral problems than their similar schoolmates. Children in these families appear in need of school-based intervention services. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Psychol Schs 43: 565,572, 2006. [source] Maternal depressive symptoms and adherence to therapy in inner-city children with AsthmaCHILD: CARE, HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT, Issue 4 2004Richard Reading Maternal depressive symptoms and adherence to therapy in inner-city children with Asthma . Bartlet, S.J., Krishnan, J.A., Riekert, K.A., Butz, A.M., Malveaux, F.J. & Rand, C.S. ( 2004 ) Pediatrics113 , 229 , 237 . Context Little is known about how depressive symptoms in mothers affects illness management in inner-city children with asthma. Objective The goal was to determine how maternal depressive symptoms influence child medication adherence, impact of the child's asthma on the mother, and maternal attitudes and beliefs. Methods Baseline and 6-month surveys were administered to 177 mothers of young minority children with asthma in inner-city Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC. Medication adherence, disruptiveness of asthma, and select attitudes toward illness and asthma therapy were measured. Six-month data (n = 158) were used to prospectively evaluate long-term symptom control and emergency department use. Independent variables included asthma morbidity, age, depressive symptoms and other psychosocial data. Results No difference in child asthma morbidity was observed between mothers high and low in depressive symptoms. However, mothers with high depressive symptoms reported significantly more problems with their child using inhalers properly [odds ratio (OR) 5.0, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.3,18.9] and forgetting doses (OR 4.2, 95% CI 1.4,12.4). Depressive symptoms were also associated with greater emotional distress and interference with daily activities caused by the child's asthma, along with less confidence in asthma medications, ability to control asthma symptoms and self-efficacy to cope with acute asthma episodes. In addition, depressed mothers reported less understanding about their child's medications and use (OR 7.7, 95% CI 1.7,35.9). Baseline asthma morbidity, maternal depression scores and family income were independently associated with asthma symptoms 6 months later, whereas medication adherence was not predictive of subsequent asthma morbidity or emergency department use. Conclusions Maternal depressive symptoms were not associated with child asthma morbidity but were associated with a constellation of beliefs and attitudes that may significantly influence adherence to asthma medications and illness management. Identifying and addressing poor psychological adjustment in mothers is important when developing a child's asthma treatment and may facilitate parent,provider communication, medication adherence and asthma management among inner-city children. [source] | ||||||||||