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Children Coping with Cancer: Cross-Sectional and Prospective Relations between Parenting Behaviors and Children’s Coping

dc.contributor.advisorCompas, Bruce E.
dc.contributor.authorRagan, Jennifer
dc.date.accessioned2014-04-12T18:49:31Z
dc.date.available2014-04-12T18:49:31Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/6291
dc.descriptionChild development honors research thesis about the impact of parenting behaviors on children coping with cancer. Course #: PSY-PC 2990 (Honors Research). Title: Children Coping with Cancer: Cross-Sectional and Prospective Relations between Parenting Behaviors and Children’s Coping. Advisor: Dr. Bruce Compasen_US
dc.description.abstractObjective. Children diagnosed with cancer face numerous sources of stress and are at risk for emotional problems such as anxiety and depression. Parenting behavior and children’s coping are two important factors that may impact children’s adjustment to cancer. The purpose of the current study is to examine cross-sectional and prospective relations between mothers’ parenting behaviors and children’s coping in a sample of childhood cancer patients. Methods. Children ages 5-17 who had recently been diagnosed with new or relapsed cancer (n=108) and their parents were recruited from two hospitals in the Southern and Midwestern United States. Child and parent reports of parenting behaviors and child’s coping were obtained at two time points: near diagnosis (T1) and 12 months after diagnosis (T2). Results. Significant cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of parental warmth and parental psychological control with children’s coping were found near the time of child’s cancer diagnosis and one year later. These findings have the potential to guide future intervention studies to enhance adjustment outcomes for children with cancer by using parenting as an avenue to improve children’s coping.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors Program in Psychological Sciencesen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherVanderbilt Universityen_US
dc.subjectpediatric canceren_US
dc.subjectparentingen_US
dc.subjectstress and copingen_US
dc.subject.lcshStress (Psychology)en_US
dc.subject.lcshAdjustment (Psychology)en_US
dc.subject.lcshCancer in children -- Psychological aspectsen_US
dc.subject.lcshAdjustment (Psychology) in childrenen_US
dc.subject.lcshMother and childen_US
dc.titleChildren Coping with Cancer: Cross-Sectional and Prospective Relations between Parenting Behaviors and Children’s Copingen_US
dc.title.alternativeParenting behaviors and children coping with canceren_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.description.collegePeabody Collegeen_US
dc.description.schoolVanderbilt Universityen_US
dc.description.departmentPsychology and Human Developmenten_US


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